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15 CFR Supplement No. 1 to Part 740: Supplement No. 1 to Part 740—Country Groups

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  1. Title 15—Commerce and Foreign Trade
  2. Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Commerce and Foreign Trade
  3. CHAPTER VII—BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
  4. SUBCHAPTER C—EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS
  5. PART 740—LICENSE EXCEPTIONS

Country Group A

Country [A:1] Wassenaar participating states1 [A:2] Missile technology control regime2 [A:3] Australia group [A:4] Nuclear suppliers group3 [A:5] [A:6]

Albania X

Argentina X X X X X

Australia X X X X X

Austria X X X X X

Belgium X X X X X

Brazil X X

Bulgaria X X X X X

Canada X X X X X

Croatia X X X X

Cyprus X X X

Czech Republic X X X X X

Denmark X X X X X

Estonia X X X X

Finland X X X X X

France X X X X X

Germany X X X X X

Greece X X X X X

Hungary X X X X X

Iceland X X X X X

India X X X X

Ireland X X X X X

Israel X

Italy X X X X X

Japan X X X X X

Kazakhstan X

Korea, South X X X X X

Latvia X X X X

Lithuania X X X X

Luxembourg X X X X X

Malta X X X

Mexico X X X X

Netherlands X X X X X

New Zealand X X X X X

Norway X X X X X

Poland X X X X X

Portugal X X X X X

Romania X X X X

Serbia X

Singapore X

Slovakia X X X X

Slovenia X X X X

South Africa X X X X

Spain X X X X X

Sweden X X X X X

Switzerland X X X X X

Taiwan X

Türkiye X X X X X

Ukraine4 X X X

United Arab Emirates5 X

United Kingdom X X X X X

United States X X X X

1 Country Group A:1 is a list of the Wassenaar Arrangement Participating States, except for Malta, Russia and Ukraine.

2 Country Group A:2 is a list of the Missile Technology Control Regime countries, except for Russia.

3 Country Group A:4 is a list of the Nuclear Suppliers Group countries, except for the People's Republic of China (PRC), Russia, and Belarus.

4 For purposes of this supplement, as well as any other EAR provision that references the Country Groups, the designations for Ukraine also apply to the Crimea region of Ukraine. See § 746.6(c) of the EAR for an exhaustive listing of license exceptions that are available for the Crimea region of Ukraine. No other EAR license exceptions are available for the Crimea region of Ukraine. The Crimea region of Ukraine includes the land territory in that region as well as any maritime area over which sovereignty, sovereign rights, or jurisdiction is claimed based on purported annexation of that land territory.

5 Consistent with § 740.2(a)(26), License Exception STA (see § 740.20) is only available to approved entities in the UAE. See supplement no. 8 to part 740 for a list of approved entities in the UAE eligible for License Exception STA.

Country Group B—Countries

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Aruba

Australia

Austria

The Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belgium

Belize

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

Colombia

Comoros

Congo (Democratic Republic of the)

Congo (Republic of the)

Costa Rica

Cote d'lvoire

Croatia

Curaçao

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Estonia

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Fiji

Finland

France

Gabon

Gambia, The

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Honduras

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

Kenya

Kiribati

Korea, South

Kosovo

Kuwait

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Micronesia, Federated States of

Monaco

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Nauru

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand

Niger

Nigeria

North Macedonia

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Palau

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Romania

Rwanda

Saint Kitts & Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

San Marino

Sao Tome & Principe

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin)

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan, Republic of

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Tanzania

Thailand

Timor-Leste

Togo

Tonga

Trinidad & Tobago

Tunisia

Türkiye

Tuvalu

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States

Uruguay

Vanuatu

Vatican City

Western Sahara

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Country Group C [Reserved]

Country Group D

Country [D: 1] National Security [D: 2] Nuclear [D: 3] Chemical & Biological [D: 4] Missile Technology [D: 5] U.S. Arms Embargoed Countries1

Afghanistan X X

Armenia X X

Azerbaijan X X

Bahrain X X

Belarus X X X X X

Burma X X X

Cambodia X

Central African Republic X

China (PRC) X X X X

Congo (Democratic Republic of) X

Cuba X X X

Egypt X X

Eritrea X

Georgia X X

Haiti X

Iran X X X X

Iraq X X X X X

Israel X X X

Jordan X X

Kazakhstan X X

Korea, North X X X X X

Kuwait X X

Kyrgyzstan X X

Laos X

Lebanon X X X

Libya X X X X X

Macau X X X

Moldova X X

Mongolia X X

Nicaragua X X

Oman X X

Pakistan X X X

Qatar X X

Russia X X X X X

Saudi Arabia X X

Somalia X

South Sudan, Republic of X

Sudan X

Syria X X X

Taiwan X

Tajikistan X X

Turkmenistan X X

Uzbekistan X X

Venezuela X X X X X

Vietnam X X

Yemen X X X

Zimbabwe X

1 Note to Country Group D:5: Countries subject to U.S. arms embargoes are identified by the State Department through notices published in the Federal Register. The list of arms embargoed destinations in this table is drawn from 22 CFR 126.1 and State Department Federal Register notices related to arms embargoes and will be amended when the State Department publishes subsequent notices. If there are any discrepancies between the list of countries in this table and the countries identified by the State Department as subject to a U.S. arms embargo (in the Federal Register), the State Department's list of countries subject to U.S. arms embargoes shall be controlling.

Country Group E 1

Country [E:1] Terrorist supporting countries 2 [E:2] Unilateral embargo

Cuba X

Iran X

Korea, North X

Syria X

1 In addition to the controls maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security pursuant to the EAR, note that the Department of the Treasury administers:

(a) A comprehensive embargo against Cuba and Iran; and

(b) An embargo against certain persons, e.g., Specially Designated Terrorists (SDT), Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT), and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNT). Please see part 744 of the EAR for controls maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security on these and other persons.

2 The President made inapplicable with respect to Iraq provisions of law that apply to countries that have supported terrorism.

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