Military, Technology and Miscellaneous Exports

Export Control List 2005

Changes and Corrections

The recent amendment of August 29th, 2006 to Canada’s Export Control List has resulted in a number of additions, deletions, and clarifications to the export controls related to various goods and technologies. A brief overview of the key changes to the goods and technologies affected by this amendment are provided below. Please consult “A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls - December 2005" found on our website or contact the Export Controls Division at (613) 996-2387 for further clarification.

Additions of controls:

• specially designed components of machine tools (1-2.B),
• numerically controlled machine tools using a magnetorheological finishing (MRF) process
  (1-2.B),
• spray cooling (1-3.A),
• physics based simulation software (1-3.D),
• direction finding equipment (1-5.A),
• inertial equipment for azimuth, heading or north pointing (1-7.A),
• fuze setting devices for ammunition (2-3),
• military lighter-than-air-vehicles (2-10),
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems jamming equipment (2-11),
• a Nuclear Technology Note and a General Software Note, (Group 3),
• radial ball bearings (6-3.A),
• hydrazinium nitroformate (6-4.C),
• the list of Australia Group materials (7-4),
• spraying and fogging systems (7-6),
• plant pathogens (7-13).

Clarifications and changes to technical parameters have been made to controls for:

• non-fluorinated polymeric substances (1-1.C),
• unprocessed fluorinated compounds (1-1.C),
• microprocessor microcircuits, microcomputer microcircuits and microcontroller microcircuits (1-3.A),
• analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converter integrated circuits (1-3.A),
• microwave integrated circuits, microwave transistors, microwave solid state amplifiers and microwave assemblies / modules (1-3.A),
• radio frequency signal analysers (1-3.A),
• frequency synthesised signal generators (1-3.A),
• equipment designed for epitomical growth (1-3.B),
• equipment designed for ion implantation (1-3.B),
• anisotropic plasma dry etching equipment (1-3.B),
• plasma enhanced CVD equipment (1-3.B),
• technology specially designed or modified for the development or production of digital computers (1-4.E),
• hydrophones and towed acoustic hydrophone arrays (1-6.A),
• infrared focal plane arrays based on microbolometer material and cameras incorporating such focal plane arrays (1-6.A),
• video cameras (1-6.A),
• semiconductor lasers (1-6.A),
• magnetometers (1-6.A and 1-6.E),
• gyros and angular or rotational accelerometers (1-7.A),
• aero gas turbine engines (1-9.A),
• chemical and biological agents (2-7),
• technology (2-22),
• naval navigation equipment has been transferred from Item 2-9 to Item 2-11,
• Source Materials (3-1.1),
• Special Fissionable Materials (3-1.2),
• Zirconium Tubes (3-2.1.6),
• Deuterium and Heavy Water (3-2.2.1),
• Nuclear Grade Graphite (3-2.2.2),
• Software (3-3),
• Technology (3-4),
• Machine Tools (4-1.A.2),
• Tritium Plant and Facilities,
• Roe Herring (Item 5202),
• telemetry and telecontrol equipment (6-12.A),
• valves and pumps (7-2),
• genetic elements (7-13).

Removal of controls:

• hybrid computers (1-4.A).