1B608 Category 1B
Test, inspection, and production “equipment” and related commodities “specially designed” for the “development,” “production,” repair, overhaul, or refurbishing of commodities enumerated in ECCN 1C608 or USML Category V (see List of Items Controlled).
Category 1: Special Materials and Related Equipment, Chemicals, “Microorganisms,” and “Toxins”
Reasons for control
- NS: National security
- RS: Regional stability
- MT: Missile technology
- AT: Anti-terrorism
- UN
Country chart
| Control | Column |
|---|---|
| AT applies to entire entry | AT 1 |
| MT applies to equipment “specially designed” for MT-controlled commodities in ECCN 1C608 or MT articles in USML Category V | MT 1 |
| NS applies to entire entry | NS 1 |
| RS applies to entire entry | RS 1 |
| UN applies to entire entry | None |
List-based license exceptions
Items
- Items: a. “Equipment” “specially designed” for the “development,” “production,” repair, overhaul, or refurbishing of items controlled by ECCN 1C608 or USML Category V and not elsewhere specified on the USML.
- b. Complete installations “specially designed” for the “development,” “production,” repair, overhaul, or refurbishing of items controlled by ECCN 1C608 or USML Category V and not elsewhere specified on the USML.
- c. Environmental test facilities “specially designed” for the certification, qualification, or testing of items controlled by ECCN 1C608 or USML Category V.
- d. through w. [Reserved]
- x. “Parts,” “components,” “accessories” and “attachments” that are “specially designed” for a commodity subject to control in this ECCN or a defense article in USML Category V and not elsewhere specified on the USML.
Related controls
(1) Defense articles that are enumerated in USML Category V, 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 US-origin “600 series” controlled content. (3) See ECCN 1B115 for controls on “production equipment,” not controlled by this ECCN 1B608, for propellants or propellant constituents described in ECCN 1C011.a, 1C011.b, or 1C111 or in USML Category V.
Notes
Note to paragraph a: ECCN 1B608.a. includes: (1) Continuous nitrators; (2) dehydration presses; (3) cutting machines for the sizing of extruded propellants; (4) sweetie barrels (tumblers) 6 feet or more in diameter and having over 500 pounds product capacity; (5) convection current converters for the conversion of materials listed in USML Category V(c)(2); and (6) extrusion presses for the extrusion of small arms, cannon and rocket propellants.
Source: eCFR, version
2026-08-01, retrieved
2026-08-20T04:04:59+00:00.