S.O.(E)- In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade ( Development and Regulation ) Act, 1992 read with paragraph 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-09, the Central Government hereby amends the ITC(HS) Classification of Export and Import Items, 2004-09 as under.

2. The List of Special Chemicals , Organisms , Materials , Equipment and Technologies as given in Appendix 3 to Schedule 2 of ITC(HS) (HS) Classification of Export and Import Items, 2004-09 stands amended. The amended Appendix-3 is annexed.

3. The restrictions on export of items listed under Category ‘O’ of Appendix –3 , namely “ Nuclear materials, nuclear-related other materials, equipment and technology ” shall however come into effect from the date of promulgation of relevant notifications by the Department of Atomic Energy under the Atomic Energy Act,1962. Until such time, restrictions on the list of items under this category, as notified by this Department vide Notification No 2/2004-2009 dated 31.8.2004 shall continue to be in force.

4. This issues in Public interest.

 

(K.T.CHACKO)
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FOREIGN TRADE
AND EX-OFFICIO ADDITIONAL SECRETARY TO THE GOVT. OF INDIA

(Issued from File No. 01/91/171/14/AM06/PC.III)

Note: Please see the Policy Statement at Code No. 0005 in table A of Schedule 2 of the ITC (HS) Classifications of Export and Import Items.

Export of Special Chemicals, Organisms, Materials, Equipment and Technologies (SCOMET) listed below shall be permitted only against an export licence issued in this behalf unless export is prohibited or is permitted without licence subject to fulfilment of conditions, if any, as indicated under/against any specific category or item.

Exporters are advised to refer to the relevant guidelines relating to the export of SCOMET items in the Handbook of Procedures (Vol.I), as issued from time to time.

Glossary: Expressions used in the SCOMET List below have the following meanings:

“Development”: Activity related to all phases prior to “production” such as design, design research, design analysis, 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.

“Microcircuit”: A device in which a number of passive and/or active elements are considered as indivisibly associated on or within a continuous structure to perform the function of a circuit.

“Microprogrammes”: A sequence of elementary instructions maintained in a special storage, the execution of which is initiated by the introduction of its reference instruction register.

“Production equipment”: Tooling, templates, jigs, mandrels, moulds, dies, fixtures, alignment mechanisms, test equipment, other machinery and components thereof, limited to those specially designed or modified for “development” or for one or more phases of “production”.

“Production facilities”: Equipment and specially designed “software” thereof integrated into installations for “development” or for one or more phases of “production”.

“Programmes”: A sequence of instructions to carry out a process in, or convertible into, a form executable by an electronic computer.

“Radiation hardened”: Means that the component or equipment is designed or rated to withstand radiation levels which meet or exceed a total radiation dose of 5 x 104 Gy (Silicon).

“Software”: A collection of one or more “programmes”, or “micro-programmes”, fixed in any tangible medium of expression. However, unless otherwise provided for against any item on the SCOMET List, the List does not control “software” which is either in the ‘public domain’ or is generally available to the public by being :

a. Sold from stock at retail selling points without restriction, by means of:

1. Over-the-counter transactions;

2. Mail order transactions; or

3. Telephone call transactions; and

b. Designed for installation by the user without further substantial support by the supplier.

“Public domain” means a domain that has no restrictions upon dissemination of information within or from it; the existence of any legal rights to the intellectual property in that information does not remove the information from being in “public domain.”

“Technology” means, except as otherwise provided for against any item in the SCOMET List, information (including information embodied in software) other than information in the public domain, that is capable of being used in:

a. the development, production or use of any goods or software;

b. the development of, or the carrying out of, an industrial or commercial activity or the provision of a service of any kind.

Explanation: When technology is described wholly or partly by reference to the uses to which it (or the goods to which it relates) may be put, it shall include services which are provided or used, or which are capable of being used, in the development, production or use of such technology or goods.

“Specially designed” qualifies the description of equipment, parts, components or “software” which, as a result of “development”, have unique properties that distinguish them for certain predetermined purposes. For example, a piece of equipment that is “specially designed” will only be considered so if it has no other function or use. Thus a piece of manufacturing equipment that is “specially designed” to produce a certain type of component will only be considered such if it is not capable of producing other types of components.

“Designed or modified” describes equipment, parts or components which, as a result of “development,” or modification, have become endowed with specified properties that make them fit for a particular application.

“Usable in,” “usable for,” “usable as” or “capable of” qualifies the description of equipment, parts, components, materials, technology or “software” which are suitable for a particular purpose. There is no requirement that the equipment, parts, components, technology or “software” should have been configured, modified or specified for that particular purpose. (Contrast with “specially designed” – see above).

“Modified” in the context of “software” describes “software” which has been intentionally changed such that it has properties that make it fit for specified purposes or applications. Its properties may also make it suitable for purposes or applications other than those for which it was “modified.”

“Use” includes operation; installation (including on-site installation); maintenance; repair; overhaul; refurbishing.

Items on the SCOMET List are organised in the following categories.

 

0C - Technology

Technology and software for the development, production or use of prescribed substances or prescribed equipment specified in 0A or 0B.

Category 1 - Toxic chemical agents and other chemicals

1A - Export of the following chemicals is prohibited:

(This corresponds to Schedule 1 to the Chemical Weapons Convention(CWC))

Note: Where reference is made below to groups of di-alkylated chemicals, followed by a list of alkyl groups in parentheses, all chemicals possible by all possible combinations and alkyl groups listed in parentheses are considered prohibited unless explicitly exempted.

(1). O-Alky (
(Me, Et,n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphonofluoridates
e.g. Sarin: O-Isopropy1 methylphosphonofluoridate
Soman: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate

(2). O-Alkyl, (
e.g. Tabun: O-Ethyl N,N,-dimethyl phosphoramidocyanidate

(3). O-Alkyl (H or ­< C10, incl. cycloalkyl) S-2-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-aminoethyl alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphonothiolates and corresponding alkylated or protonated salts
e.g. VX: O-Ethyl S-2 diisopropylaminoethyl methyl phosphonothiolate

(4). Sulphur mustards:

2-Chloroethylchloromethylsulphide
Mustard gas: Bis (2-chloroethyl) sulphide
Bis (2-chloroethylthio) methane
Sesquimustard:1,2-Bis (2-chloroethylthio) ethane

1,3-Bis (2-chloroethylthio)-n-propane
1,4-Bis (2-chloroethylthio)-n-butane
1,5-Bis (2-chloroethylthio)-n-Pentane
Bis (2-Chloroethylthiomethyl) ether
O-Mustard: Bis (2-Chloroethylthiomethyl) ether

(5). Lewisites:
Lewisite 1: 2-Chlorovinyldichloroarsine
Lewisite 2: Bis (2-Chlorovinyl) chloroarsine
Lewisite 3: Tris (2-Chlorovinyl) arsine
(6). Nitrogen mustards:

HN1: Bis (2-chloroethyl) ethylamine
HN2: Bis (2-chloroethyl) Chloroarsine
HN3: Tris (2-chloroethyl) amine

(7). Saxitoxin

(8). Ricin

(9). Alkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or I-Pr) phosphonyldifluorides
e.g. DF: Methyl phosphonyldifluoride

(10).O-Alkyl (H or < C10, incl. cycloalkyl) O-2 dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-aminoethylalkyl (Me, Et N-Pr or i-Pr) phosphonites and corresponding alkylated or protonated salts
e.g.QL: O-Ethyl O-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methyl phosphonite

(11).Chlorosarin: O-Isopropyl methylphosphonochloridate

(12).Chlorosoman: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonochloridate

1B - Export of chemicals listed in 1B below is permitted only to States party to the Chemical Weapons Convention

(This corresponds to Schedule 2 to the Chemicals Weapons Convention)

Note to exporter:

(a) A list of States Parties can be obtained from the Disarmament & International Security Affairs Division of the Ministry of External Affairs (Room No. 40G, South Block, New Delhi) or at the official website of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at www.opcw.org.

(b) A general permission valid for a period of two years may be applied for export of chemicals in this category. This permission shall be subject to the condition that for each export consignment, exporters shall, within 30 days of exports, notify the details to the National Authority, Chemical Weapons Convention, Cabinet Secretariat ; Ministry of External Affairs (D&ISA); Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals and the Directorate General of Foreign Trade and submit to DGFT, a copy of Bill of Entry into the destination State Party within 30 days of delivery.

Note: Where reference is made below to groups of dialkylated chemicals, followed by a list of alkyl groups in parentheses, all chemicals possible by all possible combinations and alkyl groups listed in parentheses are included unless explicitly exempted.

1. Amiton 0,0-Diethyl S-[2-(diethylamino) ethyl)] phosphorothiolate and corresponding alkylated or protonated salts

2. PFIB: 1,1,3,3,3,-Pentafluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)1-propene

3. BZ: 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (*)

4. Chemicals, except for those listed in Schedule 1, containing a phosphorus atom to which is bonded one methyl, ethyl or propyl (normal or iso) group but not further carbon atoms,
e.g. Methylphosphonyl dichloride
Dimethyl methylphosphonate

Exemption:- Fonofos: O-Ethyl S-phenyl ethylphosphonothiolothionate

5. N, N-Dialkyl (ME, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) phosphoramidic dihalides

6. Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) N, N-dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr)-phosphoramidates

7. Arsenic trichloride

8. 2,2-Diphenyl-2 hydroxyacetic acid

9. Quinuclidine-3-ol

10. N,H-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) aminoethyl-2 -chlorides and corresponding protonated salts

11. N, N-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) aminoethane-2-ols and corresponding protonated salts

Exemptions: N,N-Dimethylaminoethanol and corresponding protonated salts
N,N-Diethylaminoethanol and corresponding protonated salts

12. N, N-Dialkyl (Me, Et, n-Pr or i-Pr) aminoethane-2-thiols and corresponding protonated salts

13. Thiodiglycol: Bis(2-hydroxyethyl) sulphide

14. Pinacolyl alcohol: 3,3-Dimethylbutane-2-ol

 

1C - Export of Chemicals as specified below is allowed to State Parties to the CWC without an export licence subject to the condition that the exporter shall notify within 30 days of export to the National Authority, Chemicals Weapons Convention, Cabinet Secretariat; the Ministry of External Affairs (D&ISA); the Department of Chemicals & Petro-chemicals, and the DGFT of such exports in the prescribed format ( Aayat Niryat Form ) along with the End-Use Certificate and submit to the DGFT a copy of the bill of entry into the destination State Party within 30 days of delivery. Export of chemicals as specified below to states not party to the Chemical Weapons Convention shall continue to be restricted and will be allowed only against an export licence, and in that case also exporters shall submit to the DGFT a copy of the bill of entry into the destination country within 30 days of export.
 

Category 4 - Nuclear-related other equipment, assemblies and components; test and production equipment; and related technology not controlled under Category 0

4A - Equipment, assemblies, components including test and production equipment

4A001 - Flow-forming machines, spin-forming machines capable of flow-forming functions, and mandrels, as follows:

a. For flow forming machines refer to 5A205.

b. Spin forming machines having both of the following characteristics:

1. Three or more rollers (active or guiding); and

2. which can be equipped with ‘numerical control’ units or a computer control.

c. Rotor-forming mandrels designed to form cylindrical rotors of inside diameter between 75 and 400 mm.

Note: Item 4A001a and 4A001b include machines which have only a single roller designed to deform metal plus two auxiliary rollers which support the mandrel, but do not participate directly in the deformation process.

4A002 - Machine tools, as follows, for removing or cutting metals, ceramics, or composites, which, according to the manufacturer’s technical specifications, can be equipped with electronic devices for simultaneous “contouring control” in two or more axes:

a. Machine tools for turning, that have “positioning accuracies” with all compensations available better (less) than 6 µm along any linear axis (overall positioning) for machines capable of machining diameters greater than 35mm;

Note: Item 4A002a does not control bar machines, limited to machining only bar feed through, if maximum bar diameter is equal to or less than 42 mm and there is no capability of mounting chucks. Machines may have drilling and/or milling capabilities for machining parts with diameters less than 42 mm.

b. Machine tools for milling, having any of the following characteristics:

1. “Positioning accuracies” with all compensations available better (less) than 6 µm along any linear axis (overall positioning); or

2. Two or more contouring rotary axes;

Note: Item 4A002b does not control milling machines having both of the following characteristics:

1. X-axis travel greater than 2 m; and

2. Overall “positioning accuracy” on the x-axis worse (more) than 30 µm.

c. Machine tools for grinding, having any of the following characteristics:

1. “Positioning accuracies” with all compensations available better (less) than 4 µm along any linear axis (overall positioning); or

2. Two or more contouring rotary axes;

Note: Item 4A002c does not control grinding machines as follows:

1. Cylindrical external, internal, and external-internal grinding machines having all the following characteristics:

a. Limited to cylindrical grinding;

b. A maximum work-piece outside diameter or length of 150 mm;

c. Not more than two axes that can be coordinated simultaneously for “contouring control”; and

d. No contouring c-axis;

2. Jig grinders with axes limited to x, y, c, and a, where c-axis is used to maintain the grinding wheel normal to the work surface, and the a-axis is configured to grind barrel cams;

3. Tool or cutter grinding machines with “software” specially designed for the manufacturing of tools or cutters;

4. Crankshaft or camshaft grinding machines.

d. Non-wire type Electrical Discharge Machines (EDM) that have two or more contouring rotary axes and that can be coordinated simultaneously for “contouring control”.

Note: Stated “positioning accuracy” levels derived under the following procedures from measurements made according to ISO 230/2 (1988) or national equivalents may be used for each machine tool model if provided to, and accepted by, national authorities instead of individual machine tests.

Stated “positioning accuracy” are to be derived as follows:

1. Select five machines of a model to be evaluated;

2. Measure the linear axis accuracies according to ISO 230/2 (1988);

3. Determine the accuracy values (A) for each axis of each machine. The method of calculating the accuracy value is described in the ISO 230/2 (1988) standard;

4. Determine the average accuracy value of each axis. This average value becomes the stated “positioning accuracy” of each axis for the model (Âx, Ây...);

5. Since Item 4A002 refers to each linear axis, there will be as many stated “positioning accuracy” values as there are linear axes;

6. If any axis of a machine tool not controlled by Items 4A002a, 4A002b, or 4A002c has a stated “positioning accuracy” of 6 µm or better (less) for grinding machines, and 8 µm or better (less) for milling and turning machines, both according to ISO 230/2 (1988), then the builder should be required to reaffirm the accuracy level once every eighteen months.

Technical Notes

1. Axis nomenclature shall be in accordance with International Standard ISO 841, “Numerical Control Machines Axis and Motion Nomenclature”.

2. Not counted in the total number of contouring rotary axes are secondary parallel contouring rotary axes the centre line of which is parallel to the primary rotary axis.

3. Rotary axes do not necessarily have to rotate over 360 degrees. A rotary axis can be driven by a linear device, e.g., a screw or a rack and-pinion.

4A003 - Dimensional inspection machines, instruments, or systems, as follows:

a. Computer controlled or numerically controlled dimensional inspection machines having both of the following characteristics:

1. Two or more axes; and

2. A one-dimensional length “measurement uncertainty” equal to or better (less) than (1.25 + L/1000) µm tested with a probe of an “accuracy” of better (less) than 0.2 µm (L is the measured length in millimetres);

b. ‘Linear displacement’ measuring instruments, as follows:

1. Non-contact type measuring systems with a “resolution” equal to or better (less) than 0.2 µm within a measuring range up to 0.2 mm;

2. Linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) systems having both of the following characteristics:

a. “Linearity” equal to or better (less) than 0.1% within a measuring range up to 5 mm; and

b. Drift equal to or better (less) than 0.1% per day at a standard ambient test room temperature ± 1 K;

3. Measuring systems having both of the following characteristics:

a. Contain a laser; and

b. Maintain for at least 12 hours, over a temperature range of ± 1 K around a standard temperature and a standard pressure:

1. A “resolution” over their full scale of 0.1 µm or better; and

2. With a “measurement uncertainty” equal to or better (less) than (0.2 + L/2000) µm (L is the measured length in millimetres);

Note: Item 4A003b3 does not control measuring interferometer systems, without closed or open loop feedback, containing a laser to measure slide movement errors of machine tools, dimensional inspection machines, or similar equipment.

Technical Note:

In Item 4A003b ‘linear displacement’ means the change of distance between the measuring probe and the measured object.

c. Angular displacement measuring instruments having an “angular position deviation” equal to or better (less) than 0.00025°;

Note: Item 4A003c does not control optical instruments, such as autocollimators, using collimated light to detect angular displacement of a mirror.

d. Systems for simultaneous linear-angular inspection of hemi-shells, having both of the following characteristics:

1. “Measurement uncertainty” along any linear axis equal to or better (less) than 3.5 µm per 5 mm; and

2. “Angular position deviation” equal to or less than 0.02°.

Notes: 1. Item 4A003 includes machine tools that can be used as measuring machines if they meet or exceed the criteria specified for the measuring machine function.

2. Machines described in Item 4A003 are controlled if they exceed the threshold specified anywhere within their operating range.

Technical Note:

All parameters of measurement values in this item represent plus/minus, i.e., not total band.

4A004 - Controlled atmosphere (vacuum or inert gas) induction furnaces, and power supplies therefor, as follows:

a. Furnaces having all of the following characteristics:

1. Capable of operation at temperatures above 1123 K (850 °C);

2. Induction coils 600 mm or less in diameter; and

3. Designed for power inputs of 5 kW or more;

Note: Item 4A004a does not control furnaces designed for the processing of semiconductor wafers.

b. Power supplies, with a specified output power of 5 kW or more, specially designed for furnaces specified in Item 4A004a.

4A005 - ‘Isostatic presses’, and related equipment, as follows:

a. ‘Isostatic presses’ as specified in 5A208;

b. Dies, moulds, and controls specially designed for the ‘isostatic presses’ specified in Item 4A005a.

Technical Notes:

1. In Item 4A005 ´Isostatic presses’ means equipment capable of pressurizing a closed cavity through various media (gas, liquid, solid particles, etc.) to create equal pressure in all directions within the cavity upon a work piece or material.

2. In Item 4A005 the inside chamber dimension is that of the chamber in which both the working temperature and the working pressure are achieved and does not include fixtures. That dimension will be the smaller of either the inside diameter of the pressure chamber or the inside diameter of the insulated furnace chamber, depending on which of the two chambers is located inside the other.

4A006 - Vibration test systems, equipment, and components as follows:

a. Electrodynamic vibration test systems, having all of the following characteristics:

1. Employing feedback or closed loop control techniques and incorporating a digital control unit;

2. Capable of vibrating at 10 g RMS or more between 20 and 2000 Hz; and

3. Capable of imparting forces of 50 kN or greater measured ‘bare table’;

b. Digital control units, combined with “software” specially designed for vibration testing, with a real-time bandwidth greater than 5 kHz and being designed for a system specified in Item 4A006a;

c. Vibration thrusters (shaker units), with or without associated amplifiers, capable of imparting a force of 50 kN or greater measured ‘bare table’, which are usable for the systems specified in Item 4A006a;

d. Test piece support structures and electronic units designed to combine multiple shaker units into a complete shaker system capable of providing an effective combined force of 50 kN or greater, measured ‘bare table,’ which are usable for the systems specified in Item 4A006a.

Technical Note:

In Item 4A006 ‘bare table’ means a flat table, or surface, with no fixtures or fittings.

4A007 - Vacuum or other controlled atmosphere metallurgical melting and casting furnaces and related equipment, as follows:

a. Arc re-melt and casting furnaces having both of the following characteristics:

1. Consumable electrode capacities between 1000 and 20000 cm3; and

2. Capable of operating with melting temperatures above 1973 K (1700 °C);

b. Electron beam melting furnaces and plasma atomisation and melting furnaces, having both of the following characteristics:

1. A power of 50 kW or greater; and

2. Capable of operating with melting temperatures above 1473 K (1200 °C);

c. Computer control and monitoring systems specially configured for any of the furnaces specified in Item 4A007a or 4A007b.

4A008 - Crucibles made of materials resistant to liquid actinide metals, as follows:

a. Crucibles having both of the following characteristics:

1. A volume of between 150 cm3 (150 ml) and 8000 cm3 (8 litres); and

2. Made of or coated with any of the following materials, having a purity of 98% or greater by weight:

a. Calcium fluoride (CaF2);

b. Calcium zirconate (metazirconate) (CaZrO3);

c. Cerium sulphide (Ce2S3);

d. Erbium oxide (erbia) (Er2O3);

e. Hafnium oxide (hafnia) (HfO2);

f. Magnesium oxide (MgO);

g. Nitrided niobium-titanium-tungsten alloy (approximately 50% Nb, 30% Ti, 20% W);

h. Yttrium oxide (yttria) (Y2O3); or

i. Zirconium oxide (zirconia) (ZrO2);

b. Crucibles having both of the following characteristics:

1. A volume of between 50 cm3 (50 ml) and 2000 cm3 (2 litres); and

2. Made of or lined with tantalum, having a purity of 99.9% or greater by weight;

c. Crucibles having all of the following characteristics:

1. A volume of between 50 cm3 (50 ml) and 2000 cm3 (2 litres);

2. Made of or lined with tantalum, having a purity of 98% or greater by weight; and

3. Coated with tantalum carbide, nitride, boride, or any combination thereof.

4A009 - Platinized catalysts specially designed or prepared for promoting the hydrogen isotope exchange reaction between hydrogen and water for the recovery of tritium from heavy water or for the production of heavy water.

4A010 - Composite structures in the form of tubes having both of the following characteristics:

a. An inside diameter of between 75 and 400 mm; and

b. Made with any of the materials specified in Item 3A116.

4A011 - Frequency changers or generators having all of the following characteristics:

a. Multiphase output capable of providing a power of 40 W or greater;

b. Capable of operating in the frequency range between 600 and 2000 Hz;

c. Total harmonic distortion better (less) than 10%; and

d. Frequency control better (less) than 0.1%.

Note: Frequency changers and generators especially designed or prepared for the gas centrifuge process are controlled under Prescribed Equipment (0B Category).

Technical Note:

Frequency changers in Item 4A011 are also known as converters or inverters.

4A012 - Lasers, laser amplifiers and oscillators as follows:

a. Copper vapour lasers having both of the following characteristics:

1. Operating at wavelengths between 500 and 600 nm; and

2. An average output power equal to or greater than 40 W;

b. Argon ion lasers having both of the following characteristics:

1. Operating at wavelengths between 400 and 515 nm; and

2. An average output power greater than 40 W;

c. Neodymium-doped (other than glass) lasers with an output wavelength between 1000 and 1100 nm having either of the following:

1. Pulse-excited and Q-switched with a pulse duration equal to or greater than 1 ns, and having either of the following:

a. A single-transverse mode output with an average output power greater than 40 W; or

b. A multiple-transverse mode output with an average output power greater than 50 W;

or

2. Incorporating frequency doubling to give an output wavelength between 500 and 550 nm with an average output power of greater than 40 W;

d. Tuneable pulsed single-mode dye laser oscillators having all of the following characteristics:

1. Operating at wavelengths between 300 and 800 nm;

2. An average output power greater than 1 W;

3. A repetition rate greater than 1 kHz; and

4. Pulse width less than 100 ns;

e. Tuneable pulsed dye laser amplifiers and oscillators having all of the following characteristics:

1. Operating at wavelengths between 300 and 800 nm;

2. An average output power greater than 30 W;

3. A repetition rate greater than 1 kHz; and

4. Pulse width less than 100 ns;

Note: Item 4A012e does not control single mode oscillators.

f. Alexandrite lasers having all of the following characteristics:

1. Operating at wavelengths between 720 and 800 nm;

2. A bandwidth of 0.005 nm or less;

3. A repetition rate greater than 125 Hz; and

4. An average output power greater than 30 W;

g. Pulsed carbon dioxide lasers having all of the following characteristics:

1. Operating at wavelengths between 9000 and 11000 nm;

2. A repetition rate greater than 250 Hz;

3. An average output power greater than 500 W; and

4. Pulse width of less than 200 ns;

Note: Item 4A012g does not control the higher power (typically 1 to 5 kW) industrial CO2 lasers used in applications such as cutting and welding, as these latter lasers are either continuous wave or are pulsed with a pulse width greater than 200 ns.

h. Pulsed excimer lasers (XeF, XeCl, KrF) having all of the following characteristics:

1. Operating at wavelengths between 240 and 360 nm;

2. A repetition rate greater than 250 Hz; and

3. An average output power greater than 500 W;

i. Para-hydrogen Raman shifters designed to operate at 16 µm output wavelength and at a repetition rate greater than 250 Hz.

4A013 - Valves having all of the following characteristics:

a. A nominal size of 5 mm or greater;

b. Having a bellows seal; and

c. Wholly made of or lined with aluminium, aluminium alloy, nickel, or nickel alloy containing more than 60% nickel by weight.

Technical Note:

For valves with different inlet and outlet diameter, the nominal size parameter in Item 4A013a refers to the smallest diameter.

4A014 - Superconducting solenoidal electromagnets having all of the following characteristics:

a. Capable of creating magnetic fields greater than 2 T;

b. A ratio of length to inner diameter greater than 2;

c. Inner diameter greater than 300 mm; and

d. Magnetic field uniform to better than 1% over the central 50% of the inner volume.

Note: Item 4A014 does not control magnets specially designed for and exported as part of medical nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging systems. (“As part of” does not necessarily mean physical part in the same shipment. Separate shipments from different sources are allowed, provided the related export documents clearly specify the “as part of” relationship.)

4A015 - High-power direct current power supplies having both of the following characteristics:

a. Capable of continuously producing, over a time period of 8 hours, 100 V or greater with current output of 500 A or greater; and

b. Current or voltage stability better than 0.1% over a time period of 8 hours.

4A016 - High-voltage direct current power supplies having both of the following characteristics:

a. Capable of continuously producing, over a time period of 8 hours, 20 kV or greater with current output of 1 A or greater; and

b. Current or voltage stability better than 0.1% over a time period of 8 hours.

4A017 - Pressure transducers capable of measuring absolute pressures at any point in the range 0 to 13 kPa and having both of the following characteristics:

a. Pressure sensing elements made of or protected by aluminium, aluminium alloy, nickel, or nickel alloy with more than 60% nickel by weight; and

b. Having either of the following characteristics:

1. A full scale of less than 13 kPa and an “accuracy” of better than ± 1% of full scale; or

2. A full scale of 13 kPa or greater and an “accuracy” of better than ± 130 Pa.

Technical Notes:

1. In Item 4A017 pressure transducers are devices that convert pressure measurements into an electrical signal.

2. In Item 4A017 “accuracy” includes non-linearity, hysteresis and repeatability at ambient temperature.

4A018 - Vacuum pumps having all of the following characteristics:

a. Input throat size equal to or greater than 380 mm;

b. Pumping speed equal to or greater than 15 m3/s; and

c. Capable of producing an ultimate vacuum better than 13.3 mPa.

Technical Notes:

1. The pumping speed is determined at the measurement point with nitrogen gas or air.

2. The ultimate vacuum is determined at the input of the pump with the input of the pump blocked off.

4A019 - Electrolytic cells for fluorine production with an output capacity greater than 250 g of fluorine per hour.

4A020 - Rotor fabrication or assembly equipment, rotor straightening equipment, bellows-forming mandrels and dies, as follows:

a. Rotor assembly equipment for assembly of gas centrifuge rotor tube sections, baffles, and end caps;

Note: Item 4A020a includes precision mandrels, clamps, and shrink fit machines.

b. Rotor straightening equipment for alignment of gas centrifuge rotor tube sections to a common axis;

Technical Note:

In Item 4A020b such equipment normally consists of precision measuring probes linked to a computer that subsequently controls the action of, for example, pneumatic rams used for aligning the rotor tube sections.

c. Bellows-forming mandrels and dies for producing single -convolution bellows.

Technical Note:

The bellows referred to in Item 4A020c have all of the following characteristics:

1. Inside diameter between 75 and 400 mm;

2. Length equal to or greater than 12.7 mm;

3. Single convolution depth greater than 2 mm; and

4. Made of high-strength aluminium alloys, maraging steel, or high strength “fibrous or filamentary materials”.

4A021 - Centrifugal multi-plane balancing machines, fixed or portable, horizontal or vertical, as follows:

a. Centrifugal balancing machines designed for balancing flexible rotors having a length of 600 mm or more and having all of the following characteristics:

1. Swing or journal diameter greater than 75 mm;

2. Mass capability of from 0.9 to 23 kg; and

3. Capable of balancing speed of revolution greater than 5000 rpm;

b. Centrifugal balancing machines designed for balancing hollow cylindrical rotor components and having all of the following characteristics:

1. Journal diameter greater than 75 mm;

2. Mass capability of from 0.9 to 23 kg;

3. Capable of balancing to a residual imbalance equal to or less than 0.010 kg x mm/kg per plane; and

4. Belt drive type.

4A022 - Filament winding machines and related equipment, as follows:

a. Filament winding machines having all of the following characteristics:

1. Having motions for positioning, wrapping, and winding fibres coordinated and programmed in two or more axes;

2. Specially designed to fabricate composite structures or laminates from “fibrous or filamentary materials”; and

3. Capable of winding cylindrical rotors of diameter between 75 and 400 mm, and length of 600 mm or greater.

b. Coordinating and programming controls for the filament winding machines specified in Item 4A022a;

c. Precision mandrels for the filament winding machines specified in Item 4A022a.

4A023 - Electromagnetic isotope separators designed for, or equipped with, single or multiple ion sources capable of providing a total ion beam current of 50 mA or greater.

Notes:

1. Item 4A023 includes separators capable of enriching stable isotopes as well as those for uranium.

2. A separator capable of separating the isotopes of lead with a one-mass unit difference is inherently capable of enriching the isotopes of uranium with a three-unit mass difference.

3. Item 4A023 includes separators with the ion sources and collectors both in the magnetic field and those configurations in which they are external to the field.

Technical Note:

A single 50 mA ion source cannot produce more than 3 g of separated highly enriched uranium (HEU) per year from natural abundance feed.

4A024 - Mass spectrometers capable of measuring ions of 230 atomic mass units or greater and having a resolution of better than 2 parts in 230, as follows, and ion sources therefor:

a. Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP/MS);

b. Glow discharge mass spectrometers (GDMS);

c. Thermal ionisation mass spectrometers (TIMS);

d. Electron bombardment mass spectrometers which have a source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with materials resistant to UF6;

e. Molecular beam mass spectrometers having either of the following characteristics:

1. A source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with stainless steel or molybdenum, and equipped with a cold trap capable of cooling to 193 K (-80 °C) or less; or

2. A source chamber constructed from, lined with or plated with materials resistant to UF6;

f. Mass spectrometers equipped with a micro-fluorination ion source designed for actinides or actinide fluorides.

Note: Mass spectrometers especially designed or prepared for analyzing on-line samples of uranium hexafluoride are controlled under Prescribed Equipment (0B Category).

4A025 - Specialized packings which may be used in separating heavy water from ordinary water, having both of the following characteristics:

a. Made of phosphor bronze mesh chemically treated to improve wettability; and

b. Designed to be used in vacuum distillation towers.

4A026 - Pumps capable of circulating solutions of concentrated or dilute potassium amide catalyst in liquid ammonia (KNH2/NH3), having all of the following characteristics:

a. Airtight (i.e., hermetically sealed);

b. A capacity greater than 8.5 m3/h; and

c. Either of the following characteristics:

1. For concentrated potassium amide solutions (1% or greater), an operating pressure of 1.5 to 60 MPa; or

2. For dilute potassium amide solutions (less than 1%), an operating pressure of 20 to 60 MPa.

4A027 - Turbo-expanders or turbo-expander-compressor sets having both of the following characteristics:

a. Designed for operation with an outlet temperature of 35 K (- 238 ºC) or less; and

b. Designed for a throughput of hydrogen gas of 1000 kg/h or greater.

4A028 - Water-hydrogen sulphide exchange tray columns and internal contactors, as follows:

a. Water-hydrogen sulphide exchange tray columns, having all of the following characteristics:

1. Can operate at pressures of 2 MPa or greater;

2. Constructed of carbon steel having an austenitic ASTM (or equivalent standard) grain size number of 5 or greater; and

3. With a diameter of 1.8 m or greater;

b. Internal contactors for the water-hydrogen sulphide exchange tray columns specified in Item 4A028a.

Note:For columns which are especially designed or prepared for the production of heavy water, see Prescribed Equipment (0B002).

Technical Note:

Internal contactors of the columns are segmented trays which have an effective assembled diameter of 1.8 m or greater; are designed to facilitate counter current contacting and are constructed of stainless steels with a carbon content of 0.03% or less. These may be sieve trays, valve trays, bubble cap trays or turbo grid trays.

4A029 - Hydrogen-cryogenic distillation columns having all of the following characteristics:

a. Designed for operation at internal temperatures of 35 K (-238 ºC) or less;

b. Designed for operation at internal pressures of 0.5 to 5 MPa;

c. Constructed of either:

1. Stainless steel of the 300 series with low sulphur content and with an austenitic ASTM (or equivalent standard) grain size number of 5 or greater; or

2. Equivalent materials which are both cryogenic and H2-compatible; and

d. With internal diameters of 1 m or greater and effective lengths of 5 m or greater.

4A030 - Ammonia synthesis converters or synthesis units, in which the synthesis gas (nitrogen and hydrogen) is withdrawn from an ammonia/hydrogen high-pressure exchange column and the synthesized ammonia is returned to said column.

4B - Equipment, assemblies and components, including test and measurement equipment usable in development of nuclear explosive devices

4B001 - Photomultiplier tubes having both of the following characteristics:

a. Photocathode area of greater than 20 cm2; and

b. Anode pulse rise time of less than 1 ns.

4B002 - Flash X-ray generators or pulsed electron accelerators having either of the following sets of characteristics:

a. An accelerator peak electron energy of 500 keV or greater but less than 25 MeV; and

b. With a figure of merit (K) of 0.25 or greater;

or

a. An accelerator peak electron energy of 25 MeV or greater; and

b. A peak power greater than 50 MW.

Note: Item 4B002 does not control accelerators that are component parts of devices designed for purposes other than electron beam or X-ray radiation (electron microscopy, for example) nor those designed for medical purposes.

Technical Notes:

1. The figure of merit K is defined as: K=1.7 x 103 V2.65Q. V is the peak electron energy in million electron volts. If the accelerator beam pulse duration is less than or equal to 1 µs, then Q is the total accelerated charge in Coulombs. If the accelerator beam pulse duration is greater than 1 µs, then Q is the maximum accelerated charge in 1 µs. Q equals the integral of i with respect to t, over the lesser of 1 µs or the time duration of the beam pulse ( Q=?idt ) where i is beam current in amperes and t is the time in seconds.

2. Peak power = (peak potential in volts) x (peak beam current in amperes).

3. In machines based on microwave accelerating cavities, the time duration of the beam pulse is the lesser of 1 µs or the duration of the bunched beam packet resulting from one microwave modulator pulse.

4. In machines based on microwave accelerating cavities, the peak beam current is the average current in the time duration of a bunched beam packet.

4B003 - Multistage light gas guns or other high-velocity gun systems (coil, electromagnetic, and electrothermal types, and other advanced systems) capable of accelerating projectiles to 2 km/s or greater.

4B004 - Mechanical rotating mirror cameras, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

a. Framing cameras with recording rates greater than 225000 frames per second;

b. Streak cameras with writing speeds greater than 0.5 mm/µs.

Note: In Item 4B004 components of such cameras include their synchronizing electronics units and rotor assemblies consisting of turbines, mirrors, and bearings.

4B005 - Electronic streak cameras, electronic framing cameras, tubes and devices, as follows:

a. Electronic streak cameras capable of 50 ns or less time resolution;

b. Streak tubes for cameras specified in Item 4B005a;

c. Electronic (or electronically shuttered) framing cameras capable of 50 ns or less frame exposure time;

d. Framing tubes and solid-state imaging devices for use with cameras specified in Item 4B005c, as follows:

1. Proximity focused image intensifier tubes having the photocathode deposited on a transparent conductive coating to decrease photocathode sheet resistance;

2. Gate silicon intensifier target (SIT) vidicon tubes, where a fast system allows gating the photoelectrons from the photocathode before they impinge on the SIT plate;

3. Kerr or Pockels cell electro-optical shuttering;

4. Other framing tubes and solid-state imaging devices having a fast image gating time of less than 50 ns specially designed for cameras specified in Item 4B005c.

4B006 - Specialized instrumentation for hydrodynamic experiments, as follows:

a. Velocity interferometers for measuring velocities exceeding 1 km/s during time intervals of less than 10 µs;

b. Manganin gauges for pressures greater than 10 GPa;

c. Quartz pressure transducers for pressures greater than 10 GPa.

Note: Item 4B006a includes velocity interferometers such as VISARs (Velocity interferometer systems for any reflector) and DLIs (Doppler laser interferometers).

4B007 - High-speed pulse generators having both of the following characteristics:

a. Output voltage greater than 6 V into a resistive load of less than 55 ohms; and

b. ‘Pulse transition time’ less than 500 ps.

Technical Note:

In Item 4B007b ‘pulse transition time’ is defined as the time interval between 10% and 90% voltage amplitude

4B008 - Detonators and multipoint initiation systems, as follows:

a. Electrically driven explosive detonators, as follows:

1. Exploding bridge (EB);

2. Exploding bridge wire (EBW);

3. Slapper;

4. Exploding foil initiators (EFI);

b. Arrangements using single or multiple detonators designed to nearly simultaneously initiate an explosive surface over an area greater than 5000 mm2 from a single firing signal with an initiation timing spread over the surface of less than 2.5 µs.

Note: Item 4B008 does not control detonators using only primary explosives, such as lead azide.

Technical Note:

In Item 4B008 the detonators of concern all utilize a small electrical conductor (bridge, bridge wire, or foil) that explosively vaporizes when a fast, high-current electrical pulse is passed through it. In nonslapper types, the exploding conductor starts a chemical detonation in a contacting high-explosive material such as PETN (pentaerythritoltetranitrate). In slapper detonators, the explosive vaporization of the electrical conductor drives a flyer or slapper across a gap, and the impact of the slapper on an explosive starts a chemical detonation. The slapper in some designs is driven by magnetic force. The term exploding foil detonator may refer to either an EB or a slapper-type detonator. Also, the word initiator is sometimes used in place of the word detonator.

4B009 - Firing sets and equivalent high-current pulse generators, as follows:

a. Explosive detonator firing sets designed to drive multiple controlled detonators specified by Item 4B008 above;

b. Modular electrical pulse generators (pulsers) having all of the following characteristics:

1. Designed for portable, mobile, or ruggedized-use;

2. Enclosed in a dust-tight enclosure;

3. Capable of delivering their energy in less than 15 µs;

4. Having an output greater than 100 A;

5. Having a ‘rise time’ of less than 10 µs into loads of less than 40 ohms;

6. No dimension greater than 25.4 cm;

7. Weight less than 25 kg ; and

8. Specified to operate over an extended temperature range of 223 to 373 K (-50 ºC to 100 ºC) or specified as suitable for aerospace applications.

Note: Item 4B009b includes xenon flashlamp drivers.

Technical Note:

In Item 4B009b5 ‘rise time’ is defined as the time interval from 10% to 90% current amplitude when driving a resistive load.

4B010 - Switching devices as follows:

a. Cold-cathode tubes, whether gas filled or not, operating similarly to a spark gap, having all of the following characteristics:

1. Containing three or more electrodes;

2. Anode peak voltage rating of 2.5 kV or more;

3. Anode peak current rating of 100 A or more; and

4. Anode delay time of 10 µs or less;

Note: Item 4B010a includes gas krytron tubes and vacuum sprytron tubes.

b. Triggered spark-gaps having both of the following characteristics:

1. Anode delay time of 15 µs or less; and

2. Rated for a peak current of 500 A or more;

c. Modules or assemblies with a fast switching function having all of the following characteristics:

1. Anode peak voltage rating greater than 2 kV;

2. Anode peak current rating of 500 A or more; and

3. Turn-on time of 1 µs or less.

4B011 - Pulse discharge capacitors having either of the following sets of characteristics:

a. 1. Voltage rating greater than 1.4 kV;

2. Energy storage greater than 10 J;

3. Capacitance greater than 0.5 µF; and

4. Series inductance less than 50 nH;

or

b. 1. Voltage rating greater than 750 V;

2. Capacitance greater than 0.25 µF; and

3. Series inductance less than 10 nH.

4B012 - Neutron generator systems, including tubes, having both of the following characteristics:

a. Designed for operation without an external vacuum system; and

b. Utilizing electrostatic acceleration to induce a tritium-deuterium nuclear reaction.

4C - Technology

Technology for the development, production or use of items in 4A and 4B.

 

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