{"data":{"id":"us/15-cfr-734.13","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"15 CFR 734.13","heading":"Export.","body":"(a) Except as set forth in § 734.17 or § 734.18, Export means:\n(1) An actual shipment or transmission out of the United States, including the sending or taking of an item out of the United States, in any manner;\n(2) Releasing or otherwise transferring “technology” or source code (but not object code) to a foreign person in the United States (a “deemed export”);\n(3) Transferring by a person in the United States of registration, control, or ownership of:\n(i) A spacecraft subject to the EAR that is not eligible for export under License Exception STA (i.e., spacecraft that provide space-based logistics, assembly or servicing of any spacecraft) to a person in or a national of any other country; or\n(ii) Any other spacecraft subject to the EAR to a person in or a national of a Country Group D:5 country.\n(b) Any release in the United States of “technology” or source code to a foreign person is a deemed export to the foreign person's most recent country of citizenship or permanent residency.\n(c) The export of an item that will transit through a country or countries to a destination identified in the EAR is deemed to be an export to that destination.","path":["Title 15—Commerce and Foreign Trade","Subtitle B—Regulations Relating to Commerce and Foreign Trade","CHAPTER VII—BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE","SUBCHAPTER C—EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS","PART 734—SCOPE OF THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-15.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:24Z","sha256":"4eca3d71a74de0fc2c3518f9acf4a3c2f0a27fd5a262abaed53b934f7e89b252","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/15-cfr-734.12","next":"us/15-cfr-734.14"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}