The historic move to transfer key export-controlled aerospace categories for aircraft and gas turbine engines from the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List in reality has "created many new problems and challenges for exporters and their counsel," say partners in the law firm Barnes and Thornburg. Since the reforms took effect Oct. 15, "the export licensing process has actually gotten more complex in many situations," including the fact that exporters of military aircraft parts now may have to deal with two sets of rules-International Traffic in Arms Regulations and Export Administration regulations-instead of just one, potentially requiring companies to go to both the State and Commerce departments, they say. Those kinds of issues were supposed to be resolved by the Obama administration's widely lauded export control reform initiative.
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