{"id":217,"date":"2017-07-27T18:40:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exportcompliancesolutions.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2017-07-27T18:40:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T18:40:47","slug":"state-department-wants-input-itar-guidance-process-reforms-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exportcompliancesolutions.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/state-department-wants-input-itar-guidance-process-reforms-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"The State Department Wants Your Input: ITAR, Guidance, and Process Reforms Under Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Comments Requested on the ITAR and DDTC Guidance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On July 14, the Department of State published a notice (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/FR-2017-07-14\/pdf\/2017-14620.pdf\">82 FR 32493<\/a>) \u201cseeking comments on Department regulations, guidance documents, and collections of information that you believe should be removed or modified to alleviate unnecessary burdens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a part of the Department\u2019s implementation of the President\u2019s January 30, 2017 Executive Order 13771, \u201cReducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs\u201d and an important opportunity to help make the ITAR and State Department guidance work better for everyone.\u00a0 This includes any guidance on the DDTC website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmddtc.state.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.pmddtc.state.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an open-ended chance to influence the future of the ITAR and DDTC guidance.\u00a0 Consider any area that poses challenges to your company, including the questions addressed to DTAG below.<\/p>\n<p>Comments may be submitted by internet at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/\">www.regulations.gov<\/a> (Docket No. DOS\u20132017\u20130030) or by email to RegsReform@state.gov through August 14, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DTAG Recommendations Requested<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Separately, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has asked the Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG) to make recommendations about the following topics at the upcoming plenary sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Whether industry would benefit from a single interagency form for DDTC, BIS, and OFAC.\n<ul>\n<li>Would a single form simplify company processes or is there concern that it would become unmanageably complex?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Whether batch filing should be expanded to registration, notifications, Commodity Jurisdiction requests, etc. and priorities for this expansion.\n<ul>\n<li>Does your company currently use batch filing? If so, how would expansion help?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Whether access\/authentication methods other than IdenTrust certifications should be considered.\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Does your company have a positive experience with other certifications that should be considered?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Key areas of concern regarding the 2015 proposed revision of the definition of defense services.\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The originally proposed revision can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmddtc.state.gov\/FR\/2015\/80FR31525.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">80 FR 31525, June 3, 2015<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0An effective definition of \u201cmanufacturing\u201d distinguished from assembly, integration, etc.\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0This is in the context of possible revisions of Categories I-III removing most commercial firearms from the ITAR. Are there any changes to the definition that would be more workable?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Identify alternative, workable methods to control releases of technical data to foreign dual-nationals.\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0If releases to foreign dual-nationals are a challenge, what could be improved?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Assessment of whether new agreements should have a standard expiration date of ten years from the date of approval. The current company-based expiration dates were designed to smooth out DDTC\u2019s workload, but may have the opposite effect on individual companies.\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Do the company-based expiration dates unnecessarily complicate your business?<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0For companies that do not always request the full ten years, would a standard expiration date complicate business?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>DDTC\u2019s DTAG letter may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmddtc.state.gov\/DTAG\/documents\/DDTC%20Issued%20DTAG%20Tasks.pdf\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 DTAG will meet September 8, 2017 to review these recommendations.\u00a0 Many of these questions would also fall under the regulatory reform comment request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments Requested on the ITAR and DDTC Guidance On July 14, the Department of State published a notice (82 FR 32493) \u201cseeking comments on Department regulations, guidance documents, and collections of information that you believe should be removed or modified to alleviate unnecessary burdens.\u201d This is a part of the Department\u2019s implementation of the President\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-export-control-reform"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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