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DDTC Updates Open General Licenses

The State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls this week officially updated its two open general licenses to extend their validity for three years and make other “non-substantive edits” to the text of the licenses. The edits clarify that multiple…

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defense articles “need not be reexported or retransferred simultaneously” and the open general licenses can be used to reexport or retransfer a single defense article, the May 31 notice said. The agency announced the three-year extension for the open general license pilot program in March, which will continue to authorize reexports and retransfers of certain defense items and services to Australia, Canada and the U.K. (see 2303280034 and 2207190008).