State Dept. Completes Interagency Review of Rule for Activities That Don't Need Authorization

The State Department has completed an interagency review for a rule that could finalize an expansion to its definition of activities that don’t count as exports, reexports, retransfers or temporary imports. The agency in 2022 proposed the changes (see 2212150028), which would allow companies to avoid submitting license applications for when a foreign government’s armed forces or U.N. personnel takes a defense article out of a previously approved country, or under certain scenarios for when a foreign defense item enters the U.S. but is subsequently exported (see 2212150028 and 2302270026). The State Department sent the final rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs June 6 and completed the review Aug. 2.