UK Issues Report on 2021 Export Licensing Data

The U.K. recently released a report on strategic export controls developments during 2021, detailing its export licensing data, efforts to conduct industry outreach, and information on compliance, enforcement, case studies and more. The U.K. said it processed about 16,400 individual export licenses during 2021 -- rejecting 245 of them -- and completed 69% of them within 20 working days, an increase from the 62% it completed during the same time frame in 2020 but a decrease from the 77% it completed in 2019. It also said it “continues to operate one of the most transparent licensing regimes in the world, publishing information on all licenses issued, refused or revoked.”