What Types of Licenses Are Available?
There are three types of licenses available for trading in strategic goods or for the provision of related services:
Individual license – the authorization for one specific exporter, importer, re-exporter, re-transferor, transit person, transshipment person, or provider of related services to perform the activities specified in the Law for the Trade of Strategic Goods with respect to one end-user, consignee, or seller in a foreign country and covering one or more strategic goods
Global license – the authorization given to a certain exporter regarding one type or category of strategic goods which may be valid for the exports to one or more designated end-users and/or to one or more foreign countries
Please note that the Ministry may, on a case-by-case basis, require the establishment of an internal compliance program (ICP) as a precondition for the issuance of a global license. Please see Industry Compliance with Strategic Trade Control for more information.
General license – the authorization to import, export, transit, or transship certain specified strategic goods or to provide certain specified related services under the conditions and in destination countries specified in the general license
To obtain an individual or global license, you must submit an application to the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
The Ministry will publish general licenses on this website as they become available. Use of a general license does not require a license application. In order to use a general license, you must register with the Ministry as a user of a particular general license. There are no general licenses available at this time.
A general license may not be used if the Ministry has informed an exporter, importer, transit person, transshipment person, or provider of related services that the goods in question are or may be intended, in their entirety or in part, for a WMD-related purpose or for a military end-use in an embargoed destination, or when the license user is aware that the goods are intended for such a purpose.