Implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Items: Revisions to the Commerce Control List and Reporting Under the Wassenaar Arrangement

The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) is conforming the dates identified in the savings clause of the interim rule implementing the Wassenaar Arrangement published in the Federal Register on January 15, 1998 (63 FR 2452). Shipments of items removed from eligibility for export or reexport under a particular License Exception authorization or the designator NLR may now be exported or reexported under that License Exception authorization or designator until (and including) April 15, 1998. This action should minimize industry's concerns about implementing the new licensing requirement provisions of the interim rule by the original date of February 17, 1998. Note that this rule does not affect the reporting requirements of Section 743.1 of the Export Administration Regulations, and any item removed from License Exception or NLR eligibility as a result of the January 15 rule may be subject to reporting requirements. As this rule conforms the saving clause dates, the April 15 date concerning submission of license applications identifying the new Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) as a result of revisions to the numbering and structure of certain entries on the Commerce Control List remains unchanged.