Source: https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/licensing/dt_keyterms.html
Timestamp: 2017-11-20 11:54:55
Document Index: 722851082

Matched Legal Cases: ['§120', '§130', '§130', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§121', '§121', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§130', '§ 130', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§ 130', '§120', '§121', '§125', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§734', '§120', '§130', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§120', '§121', '§120', '§120']

Specially Designed DDTC - Key Terms
Accessory – Associated articles for any component, equipment, system, or end-item, and which are not necessary for its operation, but which enhance its usefulness or effectiveness. Source: §120.45(c).
Applicant – Applicant means any person who applies to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls for any license or approval required under this subchapter for the export of defense articles or defense services valued in an amount of $500,000 or more which are being sold commercially to or for the use of the armed forces of a foreign country or international organization. This term also includes a person to whom the required license or approval has been given. [71 FR 20554, Apr. 21, 2006]. Source: §130.2, Applicant.
Armed Forces – Armed forces means the army, navy, marine, air force, or coast guard, as well as the national guard and national police, of a foreign country. This term also includes any military unit or military personnel organized under or assigned to an international organization. Source: §130.3, Armed Forces.
Attachment – Associated articles for any component, equipment, system, or end-item, and which are not necessary for its operation, but which enhance its usefulness or effectiveness. Source: §120.45(c).
Catch-All – A "catch-all" control is one that does not refer to specific types of parts, components, accessories, or attachments, but rather controls unspecified parts, components, accessories, or attachments only if they were specially designed for an enumerated item. Source: §120.41, Note to paragraph (b).
Commodity – Any article, material, or supply, except technology/technology data or software. Source: §120.41, Note to paragraphs (a) and (b).
Commodity Jurisdiction – A procedure used with the U.S. Government if doubt exists as to whether an article or service is covered by the U.S. Munitions List. It may also be used for consideration of a redesignation of an article or service currently covered by the USML. Source: §120.4, Commodity Jurisdiction.
Component – An item that is useful only when used in conjunction with an end-item. A major component includes any assembled element that forms a portion of an end-item without which the end-item is inoperable. A minor component includes any assembled element of a major component. Source: sect;120.45(b).
Defense Articles – Any item or technical data designated in §121.1 of [the ITAR]. This term includes technical data recorded or stored in any physical form, models, mockups or other items that reveal technical data directly relating to items designated in §121.1 of [the ITAR]. It also includes forgings, castings, and other unfinished products, such as extrusions and machined bodies, that have reached a stage in manufacturing where they are clearly identifiable by mechanical properties, material composition, geometry, or function as defense articles. It does not include basic marketing information on function or purpose or general system descriptions. Source: §120.6, Defense Article.
Defense Services – The furnishing of assistance (including training) to foreign persons, whether in the United States or abroad in the design, development, engineering, manufacture, production, assembly, testing, repair, maintenance, modification, operation, demilitarization, destruction, processing or use of defense articles; the furnishing to foreign persons of any technical data controlled under [the ITAR]; whether in the United States or abroad; or military training of foreign units and forces, regular and irregular, including formal or informal instruction of foreign persons in the United States or abroad or by correspondence courses, technical, educational, or information publications and media of all kinds, training aid, orientation, training exercise, and military advice. Source: §120.9, Defense Services.
Development – Related to all stages prior to serial production, such as: design, design research, design analyses, design concepts, assembly and testing of prototypes, pilot production schemes, design data, process of transforming design data into a product, configuration design, integration design, layouts. Source: §120.41, Note 2 to paragraph (b)(3).
End Item – A system, equipment, or an assembled article ready for its intended use. Only ammunition or fuel or other energy source is required to place it in an operating state. Source: §120.45(a).
Enumerated – Refers to any article on the USML or Commerce Control List and not in a “catch-all” control. A “catch-all” control is one that does not refer to specific types of parts, components, accessories, or attachments, but rather controls unspecified parts, components, accessories, or attachments only if they were specially designed for an enumerated item. Source: §120.41, Note to paragraph (b).
Equipment – A combination of parts, components, accessories, attachments, firmware, or software that operate together to perform a function of, as, or for an end-item or system. Equipment may be a subset of an end-item based on the characteristics of the equipment. Equipment that meets the definition of an end-item is an end-item. Equipment that does not meet the definition of an end-item is a component, accessory, attachment, firmware, or software. Source: §120.45(h).
Equivalent – With respect to a commodity, "equivalent" means its form has been modified solely for fit purposes. Source: §120.41, Note 5 to paragraph (b)(3).
Fees or Commissions – Fee or commission means, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, any loan, gift, donation or other payment of $1,000 or more made, or offered or agreed to be made directly or indirectly, whether in cash or in kind, and whether or not pursuant to a written contract, which is:
To or at the direction of any person, irrespective of nationality, whether or not employed by or affiliated with an applicant, a supplier or a vendor; and
The term fee or commission does not include:
A political contribution or a payment excluded by §130.6 from the definition of political contribution;
A normal salary (excluding contingent compensation) established at an annual rate and paid to a regular employee of an applicant, supplier or vendor;
Payments made, or offered or agreed to be made, solely for the purchase by an applicant, supplier or vendor of specific goods or technical, operational or advisory services, which payments are not disproportionate in amount with the value of the specific goods or services actually furnished.
[58 FR 39323, July 22, 1993, as amended at 71 FR 20554, Apr. 21, 2006]. Source: § 130.5, Fee or Commission.
Firmware - Firmware and any related unique support tools (such as computers, linkers, editors, test case generators, diagnostic checkers, library of functions, and system test diagnostics) directly related to equipment or systems covered under any category of the U.S. Munitions List are considered as part of the end-item or component. Firmware includes but is not limited to circuits into which software has been programmed. Source: §120.45(e).
Fit – The fit of a commodity is defined by its ability to physically interface or connect with or become an integral part of another commodity. For software, the fit is defined by its ability to interface or connect with a defense article. Source: §120.41, Note 4 to paragraph (b)(3)Also see Note 4 to §120.4.
Form – The form of a commodity is defined by its configuration (including the geometrically measured configuration), material, and material properties that uniquely characterize it. For software, the form means the design, logic flow, and algorithms. Source: §120.41, Note 4 to paragraph (b)(3). Also see Note 4 to §120.4.
Function – The action or actions a commodity is designed to perform. For software, function refers to the action or actions the software performs directly related to a defense article or as a standalone application. Source: §120.41, Note 4 to paragraph (b)(3).
Knowledge – Knowledge includes not only the positive knowledge a circumstance exists or is substantially certain to occur, but also an awareness of a high probability of its existence or future occurrence. Such awareness is inferred from evidence of the conscious disregard of facts known to a person and is also inferred from a person’s willful avoidance of facts. Source: §120.41, Note 2 to paragraphs (b)(4) and (5).
Part – Any single unassembled element of a major or a minor component, accessory, or attachment which is not normally subject to disassembly without the destruction or the impairment of designed use. Source: §120.45(d).
Performance Capability – The measure of a commodity’s effectiveness to perform a designated function in a given environment (e.g., measured in terms of speed, durability, reliability, pressure, accuracy, efficiency). For software, performance capability means the measure of the software’s effectiveness to perform a designated function. Source: §120.41, Note 4 to paragraph (b)(3).
Political Contributions – Political contribution means any loan, gift, donation or other payment of $1,000 or more made, or offered or agreed to be made, directly or indirectly, whether in cash or in kind, which is:
Source: § 130.6, Political contribution.
Production – All production stages, such as product engineering, manufacture, integration, assembly (mounting), inspection, testing, and quality assurance. This includes "serial production" where commodities have passed production readiness testing (i.e., an approved, standardized design ready for large scale production) and have been or are being produced on an assembly line for multiple commodities using the approved, standardized design. Source: §120.41, Note 1 to paragraph (b)(3).
Software – Includes but is not limited to the system functional design, logic flow, algorithms, application programs, operating systems and support software for design, implementation, test, operation, diagnosis and repair. A person who intends to export only software should, unless it is specifically enumerated in §121.1 (e.g., Category XIII(b)), apply for a technical data license pursuant to §125. Source: §120.45(f).
Specially Designed – Commodities or software that either as a result of development, have properties peculiarly responsible for achieving or exceeding the controlled performance levels, characteristics, or functions described in a USML paragraph; or are parts, components, accessories, attachments, or software for use in or with defense articles and are not excluded for one or more of the reasons listed in §120.41(b). Source: §120.41, Specially Designed.
Subject to the EAR – A term used in the EAR to describe those commodities, software, technology, and activities over which the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) exercises regulatory jurisdiction under the EAR (see §734.2(a) of the EAR). Source: BIS Specially Designed Decision Tool, Key Terms List.
Subject to the ITAR – Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778), as amended, authorizes the President to control the export and import of defense articles and defense services. The statutory authority of the President to promulgate regulations with respect to exports of defense articles and defense services was delegated to the Secretary of State by Executive Order 11958, as amended. [The ITAR] implements that authority. Source: §120.1, General authorities, receipt of licenses, and ineligibility.
Supplier – Supplier means any person who enters into a contract with the Department of Defense for the sale of defense articles or defense services valued in an amount of $500,000 or more under Section 22 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2762). Source: §130.7, Supplier.
System – A combination of parts, components, accessories, attachments, firmware, software, equipment, or end-items that operate together to perform a function. Source: §120.45(g).
Technical Data – Information, other than software as defined in §120.10(a)(4) which is required for the design, development, production, manufacture, assembly, operation, repair, testing, maintenance or modification of defense articles (this includes information in the form of blueprints, drawings, photographs, plans, instructions or documentation); classified information relating to defense articles and defense services on the USML and 600-series items controlled by the CCL; information covered by an invention secrecy order; or software as defined in §120.45(f) directly related to defense articles. Source: §120.10, Technical Data.
USML – The Arms Export Control Act (22 USC 2778(a) and 2794(7)) provides that the President shall designate the articles and services deemed to be defense articles and defense services for purposes of import or export controls. The items so designated constitute the United States Munitions List (USML) and are specified in §121.1 of the ITAR. Such designations are made by the Department of State (within the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls) with the concurrence of the Department of Defense. For a determination on whether a particular item is included on the USML, see §120.4(a). Source: §120.2, Designation of Defense Articles and Defense Services.
600-Series – A new control series added to the Commerce Control List (CCL) that controls most items formerly on the USML that have moved to the CCL, and consolidates the thirteen existing Wassenaar Arrangement Munitions List entries.
Last updated January 2cd, 2015