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A Guide To Canada’s Export Control List
December 2015 version
Table of Contents
- Category 1: Special materials and related equipment
- Category 2: Materials processing
- Category 3: Electronics
- Category 4: Computers
- Category 5 - Part 1: Telecommunications
- Category 5 - Part 2: “Information security”
- Category 6: Sensors and “lasers”
- Category 7: Navigation and avionics
- Category 8: Marine
- Category 9: Aerospace and propulsion
- 2-1. Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of less than 20 mm, other arms and automatic weapons with a calibre of 12.7 mm (calibre 0.50 inches) or less and accessories, and specially designed components therefor
- 2-2. Smooth-bore weapons with a calibre of 20 mm or more, other weapons or armament with a calibre greater than 12.7 mm (calibre 0.50 inches), projectors and accessories, and specially designed components therefor
- 2-3. Ammunition and fuze setting devices, and specially designed components therefor
- 2-4. Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and related equipment and accessories, and specially designed components therefor
- 2-5. Fire control, and related alerting and warning equipment, and related systems, test and alignment and countermeasure equipment, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor
- 2-6. Ground vehicles and components
- 2-7. Chemical or biological toxic agents, “riot control agents”, radioactive materials, related equipment, components and materials
- 2-8. “Energetic materials” and related substances
- 2-9. Vessels of war (surface or underwater), special naval equipment, accessories, components and other surface vessels
- 2-10. “Aircraft”, “lighter-than-air vehicles”, “unmanned aerial vehicles” (“UAVs”), aero-engines and “aircraft” equipment, related equipment, and components, specially designed or modified for military use
- 2-11. Electronic equipment, “spacecraft” and components, not specified elsewhere on the Munitions List
- 2-12. High velocity kinetic energy weapon systems and related equipment, and specially designed components therefor
- 2-13. Armoured or protective equipment, constructions and components
- 2-14. ‘Specialised equipment for military training’ or for simulating military scenarios, simulators specially designed for training in the use of any firearm or weapon specified by 2-1. or 2-2., and specially designed components and accessories therefor
- 2-15. Imaging or countermeasure equipment, specially designed for military use, and specially designed components and accessories therefor
- 2-16. Forgings, castings and other unfinished products, specially designed for items specified by 2-1. to 2-4., 2-6., 2-9., 2-10., 2-12. or 2-19.
- 2-17. Miscellaneous equipment, materials and “libraries”, and specially designed components therefor
- 2-18. ‘Production’ equipment and components
- 2-19. Directed energy weapon (DEW) systems, related or countermeasure equipment and test models, and specially designed components therefor
- 2-20. Cryogenic and “superconductive” equipment, and specially designed components and accessories therefor
- 2-21. “Software”
- 2-22. “Technology”
- Definitions of Terms Used in Groups 1 and 2
Group 3 - Nuclear Non-Proliferation List
- 3-1. Source and special fissionable materials
- 3-2. Equipment and non-nuclear materials
- 3-2.1. Nuclear reactors and especially designed or prepared equipment and components therefor
- 3-2.2. Non-nuclear materials for reactors
- 3-2.3. Plants for the reprocessing of irradiated fuel elements, and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor
- 3-2.4. Plants for the fabrication of nuclear reactor fuel elements, and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor
- 3-2.5. Plants for the separation of isotopes of natural uranium, depleted uranium or special fissionable material and equipment, other than analytical instruments, especially designed or prepared therefor
- 3-2.6. Plants for the production or concentration of heavy water, deuterium and deuterium compounds and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor
- 3-2.7. Plants for the conversion of uranium and plutonium for use in the fabrication of fuel elements and the separation of uranium isotopes as defined in items 3-2.4. and 3-2.5. respectively, and equipment especially designed or prepared therefor
- 3-3. Software
- 3-4. Technology
Group 4 - Nuclear-Related Dual-Use List
- 4-1. Industrial equipment
- 4-2. Materials
- 4-3. Uranium isotope separation equipment and components (other than listed in Group 3)
- 4-4. Heavy water production plant related equipment (other than listed in Group 3)
- 4-5. Test and measurement equipment for the development of nuclear explosive devices
- 4-6. Components for nuclear explosive devices
- Definitions of Terms Used in Groups 3 and 4
Group 5 - Miscellaneous Goods and Technology
- Forest Products
- Agriculture and Food Products
- Foreign Origin Goods and Technology
- Other Military and Strategic Goods and Technology
Group 6 - Missile Technology Control Regime List
- 6-1. Complete delivery systems
- 6-2. Complete subsystems usable for complete delivery systems
- 6-3. Propulsion components and equipment
- 6-4. Propellants, chemicals and propellant production
- 6-5. Reserved for future use
- 6-6. Production of structural composites, pyrolytic deposition and densification, and structural materials
- 6-7. Reserved for future use
- 6-8. Reserved for future use
- 6-9. Instrumentation, navigation and direction finding
- 6-10. Flight control
- 6-11. Avionics
- 6-12. Launch support
- 6-13. Computers
- 6-14. Analogue to digital converters
- 6-15. Test facilities and equipment
- 6-16. Modelling-simulation and design integration
- 6-17. Stealth
- 6-18. Nuclear effects protection
- 6-19. Other complete delivery systems
- 6-20. Other complete subsystems
- Group 6 - Definitions
Group 7 - Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation List
- Dual-use Chemical Manufacturing Facilities and Equipment, Chemical Weapons and Related Software and Technology
- Dual-Use Biological Equipment, Biological Weapons and Related Software and Technology
- Group 7 - Definitions
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