FAQ's

It is a United States governing law to control and regulate the trade and export of defence and military articles, data, items and technologies to protect U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives.

ITAR certified or compliant means that company or person must be registered with Directorate of Defence Trade Controls (DDTC). That entity must acquire license for export and sell of items mentioned in USML.

The United States Munitions List (USML) is a special list of articles, services, items and technologies nominated by the U.S. government. It is related to defence, security and space technology and systems.

Persons, companies or entities transferring, exporting or providing service outside U.S. pertaining to USML items.

U.S. persons and foreign governmental entities in agreement with the United States may be granted licenses.

Yes, there is a provision of strong penalties and punishments for ITAR violations. Entity can be banned from future exports. Civil fine as high as $500,000, criminal fine of up to $1,000,000 and up to 10 years of imprisonment per violation.

No-to acquire a license and submit an agreement or application to DTC. Yes-For representation in case of violations.

Yes. Brokers and agents participating in international trades of items related to USML must obtain licenses or approval from DDTC

Based on application and criticality of traded equipment, article of data it will vary. A minimum of one month to two months in general.

It depends on items being exported and the end user. Also U.S. maintains different level of diplomatic relations with different countries. U.S. had banned many countries for trade of USML items and list is available on government websites.

Yes. Any company operating, tradingor dealing with softwares, algorithm and datarelated to items under USML must be ITAR compliant to avoid any violation of law.

A Commodity Jurisdiction Request (CJR) can be filed to decide if a defence export license is required or not. It is always beneficial and safer to get the clearance rather than suffering the penalties. Link for CJR:

The US State Department Directorate Defence Trade Controls (DDTC) regulates defence related exports governed by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

In 2014, U.S. government brought an amendment and removed satellite technology from ITAR jurisdiction to promote export. Regulations and USML keeps changing. Better way is to keep licenses updated and follow regulations.