METI update WMD Proliferation Concerned Party List

On August 1st, 2012, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan (“METI”) announced the update of the Weapon of Massive Destruction (“WMD”) Proliferation concerned party list. The concerned party list has been updated annually, and an exporter in Japan is required to screen its importer or end-user as Catch-all control compliance activity. The update list is available in METI web site as follows: http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/anpo/law_document/tutatu/t09kaisei/120801EUL/t09kaisei_userlist_kohyo.pdf


The updated list covers ten countries and region, total 449 entities. The additional restricted parties are 75 entities since last update, and naturally enough, most of them are entities in Iran and North Korea.

For traders, the deleted entities in update of this time may be of interest. They are as follows, which were on the list until July 31, 2012, but are no longer on the list.

India: Department of Atomic Energy (“DAE”)

India: Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd. (“MIDHANI”)

Pakistan: Crescent Engineering Services (Pvt) Ltd.

Pakistan: Engineering and Commercial Services

Pakistan: Institute of Space Technology (“IST”)

Pakistan: Lodgeaction (Pvt) Ltd.

Pakistan: Matrix Technical Services (Pvt) Ltd.

Pakistan: University of Engineering and Technology

China: BVE China Air Technology（北京必威易創基科技有限公司）

Please be noted, this WMD Proliferation concerned party list are not embargo list. As long as it is obvious the transaction is NOT relating to WMD activities, no individual export license application to METI is required. However, trader should take reasonable care about the end-use screening in the trade with listed entities.

METI update EU-Japan dual-use conversion list

As many of export control professionals are aware, Japanese export control dual-use items list has unique numbering system (e.g. Category 5 part 2 is equivalent to Japanese Category 9), however Japan's list is basically reflecting all of international regimes, therefore 1 to 1 category conversion is possible, certain interpretation difference issues exist, though.

So, for global traders, conversion spreadsheet of EU list and Japan list is quite useful which is available to download from METI web site. (http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/anpo/eulist_taihihyo.html )

As of August 1st, 2012, METI updated this EU-Japan dual-use item conversion list to reflect recent changes both in EU side and Japan side.  Updated EU list, REGULATION (EU) No 388/2012, implemented on June 15, 2012 is reflected into this conversion spreadsheet.  At the same time, Japanese dual-use control list, which is effective on August 1st, 2012 and reflecting recent MTCR update and Wassenaar Arragement December 2011 list, is also in this conversion spreadsheet.

The update part is highlighted in blue for convenience of traders.  If you need to compare Japanese category to ECCN or EU list, this conversion spreadsheet is quite useful tool for traders.