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Consolidated List of Goods Subject to Embargo for Soviet Bloc and China
A consolidated list of goods subject to embargo is set out (f) Components, parts, accessories, and attachments specially
b loW This list supersedes the list previously published in the designed for the articles enumerated in sub-items (a), (b), (c),
e rd of Trade Journal on February 5, 1960 and takes- into (d) and (e) above.
Bo~unt the amendments already published in the Journal on M.L.'. Tanks, and vehicles specially designed for military pur-
a~ 5 1961. A number of amendments not previously published poses, as follows:
~; b~en included and these are sidelined for easy reference. (a) Tanks and self-propelled guns;
(b) Military type armed or armoured vehicles, and vehicles fitted
The ernbargo list relates to those goods which, for reasons of with mountings for arms;
national security, ar~ normaIlr pro~ibited for export .to the follow- (c) Armoured railway trains;
ing countries: AlbanIa, Bulgana, ChIna, Czechoslova~Ia, the Eastern (d) Military half tracks;
Zone of (}ermany, ~unga~y, North I,(orea, North Vietnam, Poland, (e) Military type recovery vehicles;
Roumania, the SovIet UnIon and TIbet. _ (f) Gun carriers and tractors specially designed for towing artillery;
(g) Trailers specially designed to carry ammunition;
The liSt is published for the general information and guidance of (h) Amphibious and deep water fording military vehicles;
traders and does not itself have force of law; it is not a complete (i) Military mobile repair shops specially designed .to service
list of goods subject to licensing control. Traders should refer to military equipment;
the Export of Goods (Control) Order, 1960, as amended, and the (j) All other specIally designed military vehicles;
Strategic Goods (Control) Order, 1959, as amended, for the com- (k) Pneumatic tyre casings (excluding tractor and farm implement
plete schedules of goods which requ~re licensing. Further amend- types) of a kind specially constructed to be bullet proof or to
run' when deflated;
ments win be made as soon as possIble to these Statutory Orders (1) All specially designed components and parts for the foregoing.
to take account of those recent changes which have not so far M.L.7. Toxicological agents, as follows:
been included in them; in the meantime the Export Licensing Branch (a) Biological, chemical and radio-active materials adapted for use
will, on application, issue licences for those items which are no in war to produce casualties in men or animals, or to damage
longer embargoed. crops;
General inquiries about the embargo should be addressed to the (b) Equipment specially designed and intended for the dissemina-
Commercial Relations and Exports Department, Board of Trade, tion of the materials described in sub-item (a);
Horse Guards Avenue, London, S.W.l (Telephone: Trafalgar 8855, (c) Equipment specially designed and intended for defence against
Ext. 2632 or 7843), or to the appropriate Production Department. the materials described in sub-item (a), and for their detection
and identification;
Applications for export or transhipment licences should be addressed (d) Components and parts specially designed for the items listed in
to the Export Licensing Branch, Board of Trade, GavrelIe House, Cb) and (c) above.
2 Bunhill Row, E.C.l. (Telephone: Monarch 4071), from whom M.L.8. Powders, explosives and propellants, as follows:
further copies of the list may be obtained, and of whom inquiry (a) Powders and liquid or solid propellants for the articles enumer-
should be made in any case of doubt as to whether export licences ated in Items Nos. 3,4 and 7;
are required. (b) Military high explosives;
(c) Chemical base high energy solid or liquid fuels specially made:
for military purposes;
Group A (d) Fuming nitric acid.
NOTE: The Export Licensing Branch will consider applications for
Munitions List licences for the export of propellants and explosives normally used for
civilian or industrial purposes or made into cartridges or charges of an
M.L. J. Small arms and machine guns, as follows : exclusively civilian or industrial nature.
(a) Rifles, carbines, revolvers, pistols, machine pistols and machine
guns; M.L.9. Vessels of war, and special naval equipment, as follows:
(b) All specially designed components and parts therefore (a) Combatant vessels or vessels designed for offensive or defensive
NOTE: The Export licensing Branch will consider applications for
action (surface or under-water);
licences to export small quantities of small arms such as rifles, shot- (b) (i) Diesel engines of 1,500 horse power and over with rotary
guns, carbines or pistols designed for sporting or ornamental purposes, speed of 700 revolutions per minute or over, specially
and ammunition therefore designed for submarines;
(ii) Electric motors specially designed for submarines, i.e. over
M.L.2. Artillery and projectors, as follows: 1,000 horse power quick reversing type, liquid cooled and
(a) Guns, howitzers, cannon, mortars, tank destroyers, rocket totally enclosed;
launchers, military flame throwers, recoilless rifles; (c) Magnetic, pressure, and acoustic underwater detection devices
(b) Military smoke, gas and pyrotechnic projectors; specially designed for military purposes; specialized controls
(c) All specially designed components and parts for the foregoing. and components thereof;
M.L.3. Ammunition, and all specially designed components and (d) Submarine and torpedo nets; -
parts thereof, for the weapons enumerated under items 1 and 2. (e) Components, parts, accessories and attachments for the fore-
See Note to Item 1 above. going, such as turrets, naval gun mounts, submarine batteries
M.L.4. Bombs, torpedoes, rockets and missiles (guided or and catapults.
unguided), as follows: M.L.IO. Aircraft and helicopters, of the piloted or pilotless types
(a) Bombs, torpedoes, grenades (including smoke grenades), smoke and aero-engines and aircraft or helicopter equipment, associated
canisters, rockets, mines, missiles, (guided or unguided), depth equipment and components, specially designed for military purposes
charges, fire bombs, incendiary bombs; and all specially as set out below :
designed components and parts therefor; (a) Combat aircraft and helicopters and other aircraft and heli-
(b) Apparatus and devices specially designed for the handling, copters specially designed for military purposes, including
control, activation, launching, laying, sweeping, discharging, military reconnaissance, assault, military· training and logistic
detonation or detection of items enumerated in sub-item (a); support, and all aircraft and helicopters having special· struc-
and all specially designed components and parts therefor; tural features such as multiple hatches, special doors, ramps,
(c) Military fuel thickeners specially formulated for the purpose of reinforced floors and the like, for transporting and airdropping
producing materials which, when added to petroleum products, troops, military equipment and supplies; aero-engines specially
provide a gel-type incendiary material for use in bombs, pro- designed or adapted for use with such aircraft and helicopters,
jectiles, flame throwers or other implements of war. with the exception of aero-engines excepted under Item 1460 (b)
M.L.5. Fire control equipment and range finders, as follows: (Group G); and component parts thereof;
(a) Fire control, gun laying, night sighting, missile tracking and (b) Airborne equipment, jpcluding airborne refuelling· equipment,
guidance equipment; specially designed for use with the aircraft and helicopters
(b) Range, position and height finders, and spotting instruments and the engines of the types of aircraft and helicopters covered
specially designed for military purposes; by sub-items (a) and component parts thereof;
(c) Aiming devices, electronic, gyroscopic, acoustic and optical, (c) Pressure refuellers, pressure refuelling equipment, equipment
specially designed for military purposes; specially designed to facilitate operations in confined areas
(d) Bomb sights, bombing computers, gun sights and periscopes, and ground equipment not elsewhere .specified, developed
specially designed for military purposes; specially for aircraft and helicopters, aircraft and helicopter
(e) Television sighting units specially designed for military pur- engines and balloons covered by sub-items fa) and (e);
poses, and inertial platforms; (Continued on next page)
BOARD OF TkADE JOURNAL 11 "August
400 cycles per second; (i) sinusoidal information on a continuous unidirectional basis and
(iii) Designed to operate below -100 Centigrade or above having an aggregate direct recording and/or reproducing
+ 55 Centigrade;
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(2) Mechanical input types (including but not limited to from below -100 Centigrade to above +55 Centigrade;
shaft position encoders and linear displacement encoders (3) Specially designed for underwater use;
but excluding complex servo-follower systems) as follows: (4) A rated tape speed in excess of 60 inches per second; .'
(i) Rotary types with an accuracy or maximum incre- (5) A rated start and/or stop time of less than .50 mIllI-
mental accuracy better than ± 1 part in 10,000 of seconds; or
full scale, or of size 11 (1.1 inches in diameter) and (6) Recording and/or reproducing heads of the rotary .or
smaller; floating types or which were designed for use in eqUiP-
(ii) Linear displacement types having an accuracy of ment with characteristics superior to those set forth in (i) and
better than ± 5 microns; (ii) above; and .
(3) Employing solid state Hall effect; provided (l) that the equipment was designed for and IS
(m) Specially designed parts, components, sub-assemblies and primarily used in non-strategic applications and (2'1 that the
test equipment (including adapters, couplers, etc.) for the specific shipments will be used in the Sino-Soviet Bloc for
a specific installation which is primarily civilian in characteJ
above. and will not be used in relation to computers or to cJnbargoed
1570. Thermoelectric materials and devices as follows: equipment or materials; and that the number. type an
(a) Thermoelectric materials with a maximum product of the characteristics of such equipment are normal for the proposed
figure of merit (Z) and the temperature (T in Kelvin) in 0 use.
excess of 0.75; NOTE: 2. In sub-item (c) the term 'recording media' is intended to
(b) Junctions and combinations of junctions using any of the include all types and forms of specialized recording media employed
materials in (a) above; in such recording techniques, including, but not limited to, tape,
(c) Heat absorbing and/or electrical power generating devices drums, discs and matrices.
containing any of the junctions in (b) above;
(d) Other power generating devices which generate in excess of NOTE: 3. Sub-item (b) of this definition is not intended to CoY~~
10 watts per pound or of 500 watts per cubic foot of the document copying equipment which employs electrothermal and~ia e
devices' basic thermoelectric components; electrostatic techniques to reproduce on specially sensitized .m of
(e) Specialized parts, components and sub-assemblies, not elsewhere documents with which the media are in physical contact at the tune
specified, for the above devices. reproduction.
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a total of 38 per cent. or more of alloying elements except such 2. A coated wire is a wire covered with an electron emitting layer
steels containing less than 0.4 per cent. titanium or niobium- or with an insulating material.
tantalum;
NOTE: For the purpose of calculating the 38 per cent. cut- 1670. Tantalum, as follows:
off, the maximum of the range specified for each element is to (a) Raw materials;
be taken. In the absence of a specified maximum for titanium (b) Ferro-tantalum and ferro-tantalum"niobium;
or niobium-tantalum, the figure of 0.4 per cent. shall be used (c) Metal and tantalum-based alloys containing 60 per cent. or
to indicate the presence of titanium or 0.8 per cent. for more tantalum or 60 per cent. or more tantalum-niobium in
niobium-tantalum. The 38 per cent. cut-off must not be combination;
exceeded to take account of manufacturing or other tolerances. NOTE: The Export Licensing Branch will consider licences
Alloying elements means all constituents other than iron. for exports of tantalum in surgical forms.
(c) Precipitation hardening steels, containing 4 per cent. or more (d) Scrap forms of the metal and alloys covered under (c) above;
nickel. (e) Seamless pipe and tubing.
1648. Cobalt, as follows: 1671. Titanium, as follows:
(a) Raw materials, including White Alloys and Red Alloys; (a) Metal and titanium-based alloys containing 70 per cent. or
(b) Cobalt metal and cobalt-bearing alloys (other than alloys more titanium;
covered by Items 1631 and 1635), containing: (b) Scrap forms of the metal and alloys covered under (a) above.
(i) 50 per cent. or more cobalt; or
(H) 19 per cent. or more cobalt and 14 per cent. or more Plutonium, uranium and thorium. (See A.E.l.)
chromium and less than 1 per cent. carbon; or Zirconium. (See A.E.8.)
(Hi) 19 per cent. or more cobalt and 14 per cent. or more Beryllium. (See A.E.12.)
chromium and 3 per cent. or more molybdenum; Lithium. (See A.E.35.)
NOTE: The Export Licensing Branch will consider
licences for the export of small quantities of dental alloys
and small quantities of narrow strips for watch springs.
(c) Scrap forms of the metal and alloys covered under (b) above.
Group K
1649. Niobium (columbium), as follows: Chemicals, Metalloids and Petrole!Jm Products
(a) Raw materials; .
(b) Ferro-niobium and ferro-niobium-tantalum; 1701. Detonating and priming compositions, as follows: .
(c) Metal and niobium-based alloys containing 50 per cent. or more (a) Mercury fulminate, lead azide, lead styphnate, lead t~lO:
niobium or 60 per cent. or more niobium-tantalum in com~ cyanate, lead dinitroresorcinate, barium styphnate tetra~l~e,
bination; and detonating or priming compositions (mixtures) contamtng
(d) Scrap forms of the metal and alloys covered under (c) above. one or more of these chemicals;
1654. Magnesium base alloys having a content of 0.4 per cent. or (b) Sodium azide.
more of zirconium, or 1.5 per cent. or more of thorium, or 1 per 1702. Hydraulic fluids, synthetic, having a viscosity of not mo~e
cent. or more of rare earth metals (cerium mischmetal), as follows: than 4,000 centistokes at - 54 Centigrade and not less than 1.5 centl"
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