0A617 Category 0A

Miscellaneous “Equipment,” Materials, and Related Commodities (See List of Items Controlled).

Category 0: Nuclear Materials, Facilities, and Equipment, Firearms, Ammunition [and Miscellaneous Items]

Reasons for control

• NS: National security
• RS: Regional stability
• AT: Anti-terrorism
• UN

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List-based license exceptions

Items

1. a. [Reserved]
2. b. Concealment and deception equipment “specially designed” for military application, including special paints, decoys, smoke or obscuration equipment and simulators, and “parts,” “components,” “accessories,” and “attachments” “specially designed” therefor, not controlled by USML Category XIII.
3. c. Ferries, bridges not described in ECCN 0A606 or USML Category VII, and pontoons, “specially designed” for military use.
4. d. Test models “specially designed” for the “development” of defense articles controlled by USML Categories IV, VI, VII and VIII.
5. e. [Reserved]
6. f. “Metal embrittlement agents.”
7. g. through x. [Reserved]
8. y. Other commodities as follows, and “parts,” “components,” “accessories,” and “attachments” “specially designed” therefore:
9. y.1. Construction equipment “specially designed” for military use, including such equipment “specially designed” for transport in aircraft controlled by USML VIII(a) or ECCN 9A610.a.
10. y.2. “Parts,” “components,” “accessories,” and “attachments” “specially designed” for commodities in paragraph .y.1 of this entry, including crew protection kits used as protective cabs.
11. y.3. ISO intermodal containers or demountable vehicle bodies (i.e., swap bodies), n.e.s., “specially designed” or 'modified' for shipping or packing defense articles or items controlled by a “600 series” ECCN.
12. y.4. Field generators “specially designed” for military use.
13. y.5. Power controlled searchlights and control units therefor, “specially designed” for military use, and “equipment” mounting such units.

Related controls

(1) Defense articles, such as materials made from classified information, that are controlled by USML Category XIII, and technical data (including software) directly related thereto, are subject to the ITAR. (2) See ECCN 0A919 for foreign-made “military commodities” that incorporate more than a de minimis amount of U.S.-origin “600 series” controlled content. (3) For controls on self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus and related commodities, see ECCN 8A620.f. (4) For controls on robots, robot controllers, and robot end-effectors, see USML Category VII and ECCNs 0A606 and 2B007. (5) “Libraries,” i.e., parametric technical databases, “specially designed” for military use with equipment controlled by the USML or a “600 series” ECCN are controlled by the technical data and technology controls pertaining to such items. (6) For controls on nuclear power generating equipment or propulsion equipment, including “nuclear reactors,” “specially designed” for military use, and “parts” and “components” “specially designed” therefor, see USML Categories VI, XIII, XV, and XX. (7) Simulators “specially designed” for military “nuclear reactors” are controlled by USML Category IX(b). (8) See USML Categories X, XI and XII for “laser” protection equipment (e.g., eye and sensor protection) “specially designed” for military use. (9) “Fuel cells” “specially designed” for a defense article on the USML or a commodity controlled by a “600 series” ECCN are controlled according to the corresponding “600 series” ECCN for such end items. (10) See USML Category XV for controls on fuel cells “specially designed” for satellite or spacecraft.

Notes

Technical Note: For the purpose of 0A617.y.3, 'modified' means any structural, electrical, mechanical, or other change that provides a non-military item with military capabilities equivalent to an item which is “specially designed” for military use.

Source: eCFR, version 2026-08-01, retrieved 2026-08-20T04:04:59+00:00.