Category 3

Materials, Materials Processing Equipment and related technologies

3A

Materials

3A1

Special Materials

3A101

Zirconium, magnesium and alloys of these in particle size less than 60 µm

3A102

Maraging steel in any form in which any linear dimension exceeds 75 mm

3A103

Tungsten, molybdenum, and alloys of those metals in the form of uniform spherical or atomized particles of size less than 500 µm

3A104

Germanium

3A105

Gallium

3A106

Indium

3A107

Titanium alloys including Titanium-stabilised Duplex Stainless Steel (Ti-DSS) (other than as specified at 0A307)

3A108

Aluminium alloys in any form ‘capable of acquiring’ an ultimate tensile strength of 460 MPa or more at 293 K (20 degrees C)

Note: The phrase ‘capable of acquiring’ encompasses alloys before or after heat treatment

3A109

Bismuth having a purity of 99.99% or greater by weight and containing less than 10 parts per million by weight of silver

3A110

Calcium containing less than 1000 parts per million by weight of metallic impurities other than magnesium and containing less than 10 parts per million by weight of Boron

3A111

Chlorine trifluoride (ClF3)

3A112

Magnesium containing less than 200 parts per million by weight of metallic impurities other than calcium and containing less than 10 parts per million by weight of boron

3A113

Tungsten, tungsten carbide, and alloys containing more than 90% tungsten by weight in forms with a hollow cylindrical symmetry (including cylinder segments) with an inside diameter between 100 and 300 mm and a mass greater than 20 kg.

3A114 a.

Nickel powder of purity 99.0% or greater by weight and having a mean particle size of less than 10 µm;

b

Porous nickel metal produced from the nickel powder specified above

3A115

Natural boron, boron carbide or metal borides having a boron purity of 98% or more.

3A116

“Fibrous or filamentary materials”, and prepregs, as follows:

a.

Carbon or aramid “fibrous or filamentary materials” having  ‘specific modulus’ of 12.7 x 106 m or greater; or ‘specific tensile strength’ of 23.5 x 104 m or greater;

b.

Glass “fibrous or filamentary materials” having  ‘specific modulus’ of 3.18 x 106 m or greater; and ‘specific tensile strength’ of 7.62 x 104 m or greater;

c.

Thermoset resin impregnated continuous “yarns”, “rovings”, “tows” or “tapes” with a width of 15 mm or less (prepregs), made from carbon or glass “fibrous or filamentary materials” specified in (a) or (b) above.

3A117

Carbon - carbon composites.

3A2

Structural Materials

3A201

Structural materials such as:

a.

Composite structures, laminates, and manufactures thereof, including resin impregnated fibre prepregs and metal coated fibre preforms made either with an organic matrix or metal matrix utilizing fibrous or filamentary reinforcements, specially designed for use in rocket systems (including ballistic missile systems, space launch vehicles and sounding rockets), unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles and subsystems thereof;

b.

Resaturated pyrolized (i.e. Carbon-Carbon) materials specially designed for rocket systems (including ballistic missile systems, space launch vehicles and sounding rockets), unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles;

c.

Fine grain re-crystalised bulk graphites and pyrolytic or fibrous reinforced graphites for rocket nozzles and re-entry vehicles nose tips;

d.

Ceramic composite materials(dielectric constant less than 6 at any frequency from 100 MHz to 100 GHz) for use in missile radomes and nose tips;

e.

Structured materials and coatings for reduced radar reflectivity;

f.

Bulk machinable silicon-carbide reinforced unfired ceramic usable in re-entry vehicles nose tips.

3A3

Rocket propellants and constituent chemicals:

3A301

Propulsive substances - Hydrazine, Monomethylhydrazine (MMH), Unsymmetrical di-methyl hydrazine (UDMH) (except aromatic hydrazines and their salts, adipic acid dihydrazide), ammonium perchlorate, spherical aluminium powder;

3A302

Metal fuels containing any of the following: Zirconium, beryllium, titanium, tungsten, boron and boron alloys, zinc, and alloys of magnesium;

3A303

Polymeric substances:

Carboxyl-terminated polybutadiene (CTPB)

Hydroxy-Terminated Polybutadiene (HTPB)

Glycidyl azide polymer (GAP)

Polybutadiene acrylic acid (PBAA)

Polybutadiene acrylonitrile (PBAN)

3A304

Composite propellants and composite modified double base propellants;

3A305

High energy density fuels such as boron slurry;

3A306

Oxidizers/fuels - Perchlorates, chlorates or chromates mixed with powdered metals or other high energy fuel components; Dinitrogen trioxide, Nitrogen dioxide / Dinitrogen tetroxide, Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen (MON), Dinitrogen pentoxide, Inhibited red fuming nitric acid (IRFNA), Ammonium perchlorate, Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN); Hydrazinium Nitroformate (HNF), Compounds composed of fluorine and one more of other halogens, oxygen or nitrogen.

3A307

Bonding agents - Tris (1-2 (2-methyl)) aziridinyl phosphine oxide (MAPO), Trimesoyl-1-(2-ethyl) aziridene (HX-868, BITA), Tepanol (HX-878), Tepan (HX-879), HX-752, HX-874, HX-877;

3A308

Curing agents and catalysts - Triphyenyl bismuth (TPB);

3A309

Burning rate modifiers –

a.

Carboranes, decaboranes, pentaboranes and derivatives thereof;

b.

Ferrocene derivatives, as follows:

1.

Catocene;

2.

Ethyl ferrocene;

3.

Propyl ferrocene;

4.

n-Butyl ferrocene;

5.

Pentyl ferrocene;

6.

Dicyclopentyl ferrocene;

7.

Dicyclohexyl ferrocene;

8.

Diethyl ferrocene;

9.

Dipropyl ferrocene;

10.

Dibutyl ferrocene;

11.

Dihexyl ferrocene;

12.

Acetyl ferrocenes;

13.

Ferrocene Carboxylic acids;

14.

Butacene;

c.

Other ferrocene derivatives usable as rocket propellant burning rate modifiers.

3A310

Nitrate esters and nitrated plasticisers as follows:

a.

Triethylene glycol dinitrate (TEGDN);

b.

Trimethylolethane trinitrate (TMETN);

c.

1,2,4-butanetriol trinitrate (BTTN);

d.

Diethylene glycol dinitrate (DEGDN).

3A311

Stabilisers as follows:

a.

2-Nitrodiphenylamine;

b.

N-methyl-p-nitroaniline.

3A4

High explosives

3A401

High explosives, and propellants or mixtures containing any of the following;

a.

Cycloteramethylenetetranitramine (HMX);

b.

Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX);

c.

Triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB);

d.

Hexanitrostilbene (HNS).

License applications for the export of items at 3A401a and 3A401b will normally be denied

3A5

Stealth materials

3A501

Materials (and devices therefrom) for reduced observables such as radar reflectivity, ultraviolet/infrared signatures and acoustic signatures;

3A502

Structural materials and coatings (including paints) specially designed for reduced or tailored reflectivity or emissivity in the microwave, infrared or ultraviolet spectra other than coatings (including paints) when specially used for thermal control of satellites.

3A503

“Technology” related to the production or use of items in 3A.

3B

Materials processing and production equipment, and related technology

3B001

Remote manipulators that provide mechanical translation of human operator actions by electrical, hydraulic or mechanical means and operating arm and terminal fixture that can be used to provide remote actions;

3B002

Multidirectional, multidimensional weaving and interlacing machines, including adapters and modification kits for weaving, interlacing or braiding fibres to fabricate composite structures except textile machinery which has not been modified for rocket systems;

3B003

Equipment designed or modified for production of fibrous or filamentary materials as follows: converting polymeric substances; vapour deposition on heated filament substrates; wet spinning of refractory ceramics.

3B004

Equipment designed or modified for special fibre surface treatment or for producing prepregs and preforms, including rollers, tension stretchers, coating equipment, cutting equipment and clicker dies;

3B005

Chemical vapour deposition furnaces designed or modified for the densification of carbon‑carbon composites.

3B006

Pyrolytic deposition and densification equipment including:

a.

Technology for producing pyrolytically derived materials formed on a mould, mandrel or other substrate from precursor gases.

b.

Specially designed nozzles for the above process.

c.

Equipment and process controls and specially designated software thereof, specially designed for densification and pyrolysis of structural composite rocket nozzles and re-entry vehicle nose tips.

3B007

Production equipment specially designed or modified for production, handling, mixing, curing, casting, pressing, machining or acceptance testing of the solid or liquid rocket propellants or rocket propellant constituents and related technology.

3B008

Refrigeration units and equipment capable of cooling hydrogen or helium to -250 degrees Celsius (23K) or lower.

3B009

Continuous nitrators.

3B010

Dehydration presses.

3B011

Screw extruders specially designed or modified for high explosive extrusion.

3B012

Sweetie barrels (tumblers) 1.85 m or more in diameter and having over 227 kg product capacity;

3B014

Continuous mixers or batch mixers with provision for mixing under vacuum for solid propellants.

3B015

Fluid energy mills usable for grinding or milling any of the items in 3A3.

3B016

Equipment to achieve both sphericity and uniform particle size in metal powders.

a.

Metal powder production equipment usable for production, in a controlled environment, of spherical or atomized materials including:

b.

Plasma generators (high frequency arc-jets) usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders with organisation of the process in an argon-water environment

c.

Electroburst equipment usable for obtaining sputtered or spherical metallic powders with organisation of the process in an argon-water environment.

3B017

Sputter ion pumps

3B018

Technical data (including processing conditions) and procedures for the regulation of temperature, pressure or atmosphere in autoclaves or hydroclaves when used for the production of composites or partially processed composites.

3B019

“Software” specially designed or modified for the use of equipment for the production and handling of materials specified in 3A

3B020

“Technology” related to the development, production or use of items in 3B

3C

[Reserved]

3D

Chemical and biomaterial manufacturing and handling equipment and facilities:

3D001

Reaction vessels, reactors or agitators, storage tanks, containers or receivers, heat exchangers or condensers, distillation or absorption columns, valves, remotely operated filling equipment, multi-walled piping, bellows, diaphragm pumps, vacuum pumps, fans, compressors, blowers, gas (including air) handling or other substance-transfer equipment wholly or partly made from any of the following materials;

a.

Nickel or alloys with more than 40% nickel by weight

b.

Alloys with more than 25% nickel and 20% chromium by weight (e.g. ‘Hastelloy’, ‘Illium’. ‘Inconel’, ‘Incoloy’)

c.

Fluoropolymers

d.

Glass or glass lined (including vitrified or enamelled coating)

e.

Graphite

f.

Tantalum or tantalum alloys

g.

Titanium or titanium alloys

h.

Zirconium or zirconium alloys

i.

Ceramics

j.

Ferrosilicon

Note: 3D001 does not control the following items:

a.

Open vessels fabricated from glass sheets (such as aquariums, water tanks etc.); or cookware, table-ware, decorative glass or ceramic items (such as vases, art objects, etc.)

b.

Glass-ware (whether or not metal-jacketed) or glass-lined reaction vessels or reactors, whether or not equipped with agitators, provided that the total internal (geometric) volume of each vessel or reactor is greater than 20,000 litres (20 m3) or less than or equal to 100 litres (0.1 m3). Examples of the latter capacity glass or ceramic-ware include standard laboratory equipment such as test tubes, flasks, retorts etc.

3D002

Incinerators designed to destroy any chemicals specified in Category 1.

3D003

Combustors or pyrolysers capable of a heat-zone (‘burner’) temperature greater than 1,273 K (1000 Degree Centigrade), and in which any surfaces that come into direct contact with material coming into the containing chamber are made from, or lined with, any of the following materials:

a.

Alloys with more than 25% nickel and 25% chromium by weight; (e.g., ‘Hatelloy’, ‘Illium’, ‘Inconel’, ‘Incoloy’)

b.

Nickel, or alloys with more than 40% nickel by weight; or

c.

Titanium;

d.

Ceramics.

3D004

Equipment related to P3, P4 facilities such as protective suits and class III safety cabinets.

No licenses shall be granted for complete containment facilities at P3, P4, containment level as specified in the World Health Organization (WHO) bio-safety manual.

3D005

“Technology” related to the development, production or use of items in 3D