[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR742.17]

[Page 305-306]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
  CHAPTER VII--BUREAU OF EXPORT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 742--CONTROL POLICY--CCL BASED CONTROLS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 742.17  Exports of firearms to OAS member countries.

    (a) License requirements. BXA maintains a licensing system for the 
export of shotguns and related items to all OAS member countries. This 
action is based on the Organization of American States (OAS) Model 
Regulations for the Control of the International Movement of Firearms, 
their Parts and Components and Munitions (OAS Model Regulations) which 
were developed to assist OAS member countries to implement the Inter-
American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking 
in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials 
(Firearms Convention).1 Items subject to these controls are 
identified by ``FC Column 1'' in the ``License Requirements'' section of 
their Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) on the Commerce 
Control List (CCL). If ``FC Column 1'' of the Commerce Country Chart 
(Supplement No. 1 to part 738 of the EAR) is indicated for a particular 
country, a license is required for export to that destination. Licenses 
will generally be issued on an Import Certificate or equivalent official 
document, satisfactory to BXA, issued by the government of the importing 
country is also required for the export of such items to OAS member 
countries.
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    (b) Licensing policy. Applications supported by an Import 
Certificate or equivalent official document issued by the government of 
the importing country for such items will generally be approved, except 
there is a policy of denial for applications to export items linked to 
such activities as drug trafficking, terrorism, and transnational 
organized crime.
    (c) Contract sanctity. Contract sanctity provisions are not 
available for license applications under this Sec. 742.17.
    (d) OAS Model Regulations. The OAS Model Regulations on which 
regulations are based are designed by OAS member countries to combat 
illicit manufacturing of and trafficking in firearms, ammunition, 
explosives, and other related materials in North and South America 
because of their links to such activities as drug trafficking, 
terrorism, and transnational organized crime.
    (e) OAS member countries to which firearms controls under this 
section apply. The OAS member countries include: Antigua and Barbuda, 
Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, 
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El 
Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, 
Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the 
United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
    (f) Items/Commodities. Items requiring a license under this section 
are ECCNs 0A984 (shotguns with a barrel length 18 inches or over and 
related parts, and buckshot shotgun shells), 0A986 (shotgun shells, and 
related parts) and 0A987 (optical sighting devices). (See Supplement No. 
1 to Part 774 of the EAR.)
    (g) Validity period for licenses. Although licenses generally will 
be valid for a period of two years, your ability to ship items that 
require an Import

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Certificate or equivalent official document under this section may be 
affected by the validity of the Import Certificate or equivalent 
official document (see Sec. 748.14(f) of the EAR).

[64 FR 17973, Apr. 13, 1999]