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Export Trade Control Order - Cabinet Order No. 378 of December 1, 1949
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Cabinet Order No. 141 of 2011
The Cabinet hereby enacts this Cabinet Order pursuant to the provisions of Article 26, Article 48, Article 49, Article 67, and Article 69 of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Act and the provisions of paragraph (4) of the Supplementary Provisions, and for the purpose of implementing the same Act.
(Permission for Export)
Article 1
(1)Export of certain kinds of goods to certain regions specified by Cabinet Order under Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") will be the export of the goods listed in the middle column of Appended Table 1 to the regions listed in the right-hand column of the same table.
(2)A person who intends to obtain permission pursuant to Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Act must file an application for permission in accordance with the procedures specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
(Export Approval)
Article 2
(1)A person who intends to export goods that fall under any of the following items must obtain approval from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in accordance with the procedures specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry:
(i)Export of goods listed in the middle column of Appended Table 2 to the regions listed in the right-hand column of the same table;
(i)-2Exports of goods listed in Appended Table 2-2 (not including goods listed in the middle column of row 1, row 36, row 39 to row 41, and row 43 to row 45 of Appended Table 2) to North Korea;
(ii)Export of goods under a contract for processing deal trade whereby a contractor residing in a foreign country is entrusted with processing work in a foreign country (limited to cases where the whole or part of the processing work under said contract for processing deal trade falls within the scope of processing works specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (hereinafter referred to as "designated processing works")) (such goods will be limited to raw materials for processing to be used for processing works under said contracts for processing deal trade falling under the scope of designated processing works, which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry for the respective categories of designated processing works and pertain to the respective designated processing works).
(2)The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must, when granting approval under item (i) of the preceding paragraph for the goods listed in the middle column of row 28 to row 33 of Appended Table 2, obtain consent from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in advance.
(3)With respect to the goods listed in row 35-2 (2) and in the middle column of row 42 and row 43 of Appended Table 2, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry will grant approval under paragraph (1) only when said goods are exported by a person who has obtained permission for export or confirmation under other laws or regulations or obtained a license for export under other laws or regulations.
Article 3
Deleted
(Special Provisions)
Article 4
(1)The provisions of Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Act will not apply in the following cases; provided, however, that this will not apply to the goods listed in the middle column of row 1 of Appended Table 1:
(i)When a person intends to export goods which have been landed temporarily and forwarded with a bill of lading (including air waybills and other items similar to bills of lading) designating a region other than Japan as the destination (such goods will be referred to as "Temporarily Landed Goods to Foreign Countries" in item (iii) to item (vi)) (except for cases falling under any of the following if said person intends to export goods to a region other than those listed in Appended Table 3):
(a)When said goods are specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as being likely to be used for the development, manufacture, use or storage (referred to as "Development, etc." in sub-item (b) and item (iii)) of nuclear weapons, military chemical warfare (CW) agents or military bacterial agents or devices for spraying said agents, or rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles capable of transporting these with a range or flight range of 300km or farther (hereinafter referred to as "Nuclear Weapons, etc." in sub-item (b), item (iii), item (iv), and Article 13);
(b)When a person receives notice from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry that an application for permission is required to be filed because said goods are likely to be used for the Development, etc. of Nuclear Weapons, etc.;
(ii)When a person intends to export any of the following goods:
(a)Supplies for vessels or aircraft to be used for foreign vessels or aircraft;
(b)Aircraft parts as well as machines and apparatus mounted on aircraft to be used for the safe arrival and departure or navigation of aircraft and their parts, which need repair and are exported without charge;
(c)Goods sent by international organizations, which are exempt from export restrictions under the treaties and other international agreements that Japan has signed;
(d)Goods for public use sent to embassies, legations, consulates and other similar facilities of Japan;
(e)Goods imported without charge for the purpose of export without charge, which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice;
(f)Goods to be exported without charge for the purpose of import without charge, which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice;
(iii)When a person intends to export goods listed in row 16 (i) of Appended Table 1 (not including Temporarily Landed Goods to Foreign Countries) designating the regions listed in the right-hand column of the same row as the destination, except for cases falling under any of the following (or except for cases falling under any of (a), (b), or (d), if that person intends to export goods to a region other than those listed in Appended Table 3-2):
(a)When the situation falls under cases specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry wherein said goods are likely to be used for the Development, etc. of Nuclear Weapons, etc.;
(b)When a person receives notice from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry that an application for permission is required to be filed because said goods are likely to be used for the Development, etc. of Nuclear Weapons, etc.;
(c)When the situation falls under cases specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry wherein said goods are likely to be used for the development, manufacture or use of the goods listed in the middle column of row 1 of Appended Table 1 (not including goods falling under the category of nuclear weapons, etc.; the same will apply in sub-item (d) and the following item);
(d)When a person receives notice from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry that an application for permission is required to be filed because said goods are likely to be used for the development, manufacture or use of the goods listed in the middle column of row 1 of Appended Table 1;
(iv)When a person intends to export goods listed in row 16 (ii) of Appended Table 1 (not including Temporarily Landed Goods to Foreign Countries) designating the regions listed in the right-hand column of the same row as the destination, except for cases falling under any of the following (or except for cases falling under either of (a) or (b), if that person intends to export goods to a region other than those listed in Appended Table 3-2):
(a)When the situation falls under cases specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry wherein said goods are likely to be used for the Development, etc. of Nuclear Weapons, etc.;
(b)When a person receives notice from by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry that an application for permission is required to be filed because said goods are likely to be used for the Development, etc. of Nuclear Weapons, etc.;
(c)When the situation falls under cases specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry wherein said goods are likely to be used for the development, manufacture or use of the goods listed in the middle column of row 1 of Appended Table 1;
(d)When a person receives notice from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry that an application for permission is required to be filed because said goods are likely to be used for the development, manufacture or use of the goods listed in the middle column of row 1 of Appended Table 1;
(v)When a person intends to export goods listed in the middle column of rows 5 to 13 or row 15 of Appended Table 1, the total value of which is not more than 1,000,000 yen (or 50,000 yen in the case of goods listed in Appended Table 3-3) (such goods will exclude Temporarily Landed Goods to Foreign Countries) designating a region other than those listed in Appended Table 4 as the destination (except for cases falling under any of sub-items (a), (b) or (d) of item (iii) if that person intends to export goods to a region other than those listed in Appended Table 3 (or except for cases falling under any of sub-items (a) to (d) of the same item if that person intends to export goods to the regions listed in Appended Table 3-2 (not including Iraq and North Korea));
(vi)When a person intends to export goods listed in the middle column of row 9 of Appended Table 1 (limited to the part concerning goods listed in (vii) to (x)), which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice as not requiring consideration of the content of the export transactions in light of the specifications of said goods and the manner of sale of the goods in the market (such goods will exclude Temporarily Landed Goods to Foreign Countries) (except for cases falling under any of sub-items (a), (b) or (d) of item (iii) if that person intends to export goods to a region other than those listed in Appended Table 3 (or except for cases falling under any of sub-items (a) to (d) of the same item if that person intends to export goods to the regions listed in Appended Table 3-2)).
(2)The provisions of Article 2 will not apply in the following cases; provided, however, that this will not apply to goods listed in row 35-3 (1) and (6) and in the middle column of rows 37 to 45 of Appended Table 2 (in the case of goods listed in row 35-3(1) and (6) of the same table, limited to those specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice; in the case of goods listed in the middle column of row 42 of the same table, not including psychotropics exported by a person who falls under Article 50-11, item (ii) of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act (Act No. 14 of 1953)):
(i)When a person intends to export goods which have been landed temporarily, except for when the person intends to export goods listed in the middle column of row 1, row 35, and row 35-2 of Appended Table 2 (in the case of goods listed in the middle column of row 1 of the same table, not including those specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice);
(ii)When a person intends to export goods listed in Appended Table 5, except for when the person intends to export the following goods:
(a)Goods listed in the middle column of row 1 and row 36 of Appended Table 2;
(b)Goods listed in Appended Table 5, item (ii), which are also listed in the middle column of row 35 and row 35-2 of Appended Table 2;
(c)Goods listed in Appended Table 5, item (ii) and item (iii), which are also listed in Appended Table 2-2 and are exported to North Korea;
(iii)When a person prescribed in Article 10, paragraph (2) of the Waste Disposal and Public Cleaning Act (Act No. 137 of 1970) (including cases where it is applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 15-4-7, paragraph (1) of the same Act) intends to export goods listed in row 35-2(2) of Appended Table 2;
(iv)When any of the persons listed in the left-hand column of Appended Table 6 intend to export goods listed in the right-hand column upon departure from Japan by personally carrying said goods or by sending them separately after declaring them as exports at Customs, not including cases where said person intends to export goods listed in the middle column of row 1 of Appended Table 2, cases where a person who departs from Japan after entering Japan temporarily intends to export goods listed in row 36 of the same table, and cases where the crew of a vessel or aircraft intends to export goods listed in Appended Table 2-2 to North Korea.
(3)In addition to the cases prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i) will not apply when a person intends to export goods the total value of which is not more than the amount listed in the right-hand column of Appended Table 7 for the respective categories of goods listed in the middle column of the same table.
(4)In addition to the cases prescribed in paragraph (2), the provisions of Article 2, paragraph (1), item (ii) will not apply when a person intends to export goods the total value of which is not more than 1,000,000 yen.
(Confirmation by Customs, etc.)
Article 5
(1)Customs must, as instructed by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, confirm if a person who intends to export goods has obtained permission under Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Act or approval under Article 2, paragraph (1) or is not required to obtain said permission or approval.
(2)Customs will, upon having made confirmation under the preceding paragraph, inform the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of the results of said conformation pursuant to the provisions of an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Article 6
Deleted
(Review of Export)
Article 7
The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry will, based on the reports collected under Article 10, examine whether or not the export of goods conforms to the provisions of laws and regulations.
(Valid Period of Permission and Approval)
Article 8
(1)Permission prescribed in Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Act and approval prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) will be valid for six months from the date of the issue of said permission or approval.
(2)The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may, when he/she finds it particularly necessary, set a valid period for permission or approval different from the period set forth in the preceding paragraph, or extend the valid period.
(Notice of Sanctions against Violation of Laws and Regulations)
Article 9
The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry will, when having reached a decision under Article 53 of the Act, notify Customs to that effect without delay.
(Reports)
Article 10
The Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry may, within the limits necessary for the enforcement of the Act (limited to Chapter VI and Chapter VI-3) and this Cabinet Order, collect required reports from persons who intend to export goods, persons who have exported goods or persons who have produced such goods, or other persons concerned.
(Delegation of Authority)
Article 11
The following powers of the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry will be delegated to the Directors-General of Regional Customs:
(i)The authority to grant approval under Article 2, paragraph (1) with respect to goods listed in the middle column of rows 39 to 43 of Appended Table 2 (in the case of goods listed in the middle column of row 43 of the same table, not including those specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice);
(ii)The following powers within the scope designated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry:
(a)The authority under Article 2, paragraph (1) to grant approval with respect to goods the price of which does not need to be settled in full by means of payment;
(b)The authority under Article 2, paragraph (1) to grant approval with respect to goods which have been carried, stored or transported into bonded areas and are to be re-exported from the bonded areas;
(c)The authority under Article 67, paragraph (1) of the Act to attach conditions to approval set forth in (a) or (b);
(d)The authority under Article 8, paragraph (2) to extend the valid period of permission under Article 48, paragraph (1) of the Act or approval under Article 2, paragraph (1).
(Acts of Governmental Organizations)
Article 12
(1)The provisions of this Cabinet Order will not apply when the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry exports goods.
(2)The provisions of Article 5 will apply mutatis mutandis to the case set forth in the preceding paragraph.
(Goods Especially Likely to be Used for the Development, etc. of Nuclear Weapons, etc.)
Article 13
Goods specified by Cabinet Order as prescribed in Article 69-6, paragraph (2), item (ii) of the Act will be those listed in row 1 (not including (v), (vi), and (x) to (xii)) of Appended Table 1 and those listed in the middle column of row 2 to row 4 of the same table (not including nuclear weapons, etc.).
Supplementary Provisions[Extract]
(1)This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of the date of promulgation.
(2)A person who has obtained permission for export pursuant to the provisions of an order based on the Ordinance on Temporary Measures for Trade, etc. (Imperial Ordinance No. 328 of 1946) prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order will be deemed to have obtained permission set forth in Article 1, paragraph (1).
(3)Up until April 13, 2012, the term "goods listed in Appended Table 2-2 (not including goods listed in the middle column of row 36, row 39 to row 41, and row 43 to row 45 of Appended Table 2) to North Korea" in Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)-2 will be deemed to be replaced with "goods (not including goods listed in the middle column of row 19 to row 21-3, row 25, row 28 to row 33, and row 35 to row 45 of Appended Table 2-1) to North Korea"; the term "goods listed in Appended Table 5, item (ii) and item (iii)" in Article 4, paragraph (2), item (ii), sub-item (c) will be deemed to be replaced with "goods listed in Appended Table 5, item (ii), which are exported to North Korea, and goods listed in item (iii) of the same table"; the term "of the same table" in paragraph (3) of the same Article will be deemed to be replaced with "of the same table; provided, however, that this will not apply to goods which are exported to North Korea"; and the term "Articles 2 and 4" in Appended Table 2-2 will be deemed to be replaced with "Article 4."
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Supplementary Provisions[Cabinet Order No. 384 of December 22, 1951][Extract]
(1)This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of January 1, 1952.
(2)With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, the penal provisions previously in force at the time of said acts will continue to apply.
Supplementary Provisions[Cabinet Order No. 306 of July 31, 1952][Extract]
(1)This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of August 1, 1952.
(4)The Order Concerning Reports of Foreign Exchange Banks and Money Exchangers, the Export Trade Control Order, the Import Trade Control Order, the Foreign Exchange Control Order, or the Foreign Exchange Control Commission Rules, Ordinance of the Prime Minister's Office, Ordinance of the Ministry of Finance, or Ordinance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry based on the Cabinet Order Concerning Temporary Special Provisions of the Foreign Exchange Control Order, etc., upon Implementation of the Administrative Agreement under Article III of the Security Treaty between Japan and the United States of America, or an Ordinance of the Prime Minister's Office or Ordinance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, all of which are effective at the time of enforcement of this Cabinet Order and have not yet been revised, will be effective, after the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, as the Order Concerning Reports of Foreign Exchange Banks and Money Exchangers, the Export Trade Control Order, the Import Trade Control Order, the Foreign Exchange Control Order, or the relevant ordinance of the competent ministry, Ordinance of the Ministry of Finance or Ordinance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry based on the Cabinet Order Concerning Temporary Special Provisions of the Foreign Exchange Control Order, etc. upon Implementation of the Administrative Agreement under Article III of the Security Treaty between Japan and the United States of America, or an Ordinance of the Ministry of Finance or Ordinance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, all of which have been revised.
Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 316 of December 28, 1960][Cabinet Order No. 316 of December 28, 1960]
(1)This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of January 10, 1961.
(2)With regard to export of goods to Iran or Iraq conducted as approved or permitted under Article 1, paragraph (1) or Article 2, paragraph (1) prior to their revision, the provisions of Article 1, paragraph (1), item (i)-2 after their revision will not apply.
Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 331 of September 22, 1978][Cabinet Order No. 331 of September 22, 1978]
(1)This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of October 2, 1978.
(2)With regard to export or import of goods conducted, as permitted, by a person who has obtained, prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, permission set forth in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Export Trade Control Order prior to its revision with respect to the conclusion of a consignment sales trade contract, the provisions in force at the time said person obtained permission will continue to apply.
Supplementary Provisions[Cabinet Order No. 138 of May 26, 1980][Extract]
(1)This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of June 2, 1980.
(2)With regard to export of goods conducted, as approved or permitted, by a person who has obtained, prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, approval or permission under Article 1, paragraph (1) or Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Export Trade Control Order with respect to export of goods to Iran, the provisions in force at the time said person obtained permission will continue to apply.
(4)With regard to a concluded service contract or services subject to the Foreign Exchange Control Order, Export Trade Control Order, or Import Trade Control Order provided by a person who has obtained, prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, permission under Article 17, paragraph (2) of the Foreign Exchange Control Order or approval, permission or certification under the Export Trade Control Order or Import Trade Control Order for concluding a service contract or providing services subject to said Orders with respect to a specified business, as permitted under said paragraph or as approved, permitted or certified under the Export Trade Control Order or Import Trade Control Order, the provisions in force at the time said person obtained permission will continue to apply.
Supplementary Provisions[Cabinet Order No. 264 of October 11, 1980][Extract]
(Effective Date)
Article 1This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of the date of enforcement of the Act for Partial Revision of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Act (December 1, 1980).
(Transitional Measures)
Article 2(1)With regard to export of goods conducted, as permitted, by a person who has obtained, prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, permission under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Export Trade Control Order prior to its revision, to which the provisions of Article 1, paragraph (1) of the same Order after its revision applies, the provisions in force at the time said person obtained permission will continue to apply.
(2)With regard to export or import of goods conducted, as approved, by a person who has obtained, prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, approval under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Export Trade Control Order prior to its revision, with respect to the conclusion of a contract for processing deal trade, to which the provisions of Article 1, paragraph (1) of the same Order after its revision or Article 4, paragraph (1) of the Import Trade Control Order applies, the provisions in force at the time of gaining said permission will continue to apply.
(Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions)
Article 3With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, the penal provisions previously in force at the time of said acts will continue to apply.
Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 285 of October 31, 1980][Cabinet Order No. 285 of October 31, 1980]
This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of the day on which the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora comes into effect in Japan (November 4, 1980).
Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 7 of January 26, 1981][Cabinet Order No. 7 of January 26, 1981]
(1)This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of the date of promulgation.
(2)With regard to export of goods conducted, as permitted, by a person who has obtained, prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, permission under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Export Trade Control Order with respect to export of goods to Iran, the provisions in force at the time said person obtained permission will continue to apply
(3)With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, the penal provisions previously in force at the time of said acts will continue to apply.
Supplementary Provisions[Cabinet Order No. 373 of November 5, 1987][Extract]
(Effective Date)
Article 1This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of the date of enforcement of the Act for Partial Revision of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Act (November 10, 1987).
(Transitional Measures)
Article 3With regard to export of goods that is deemed to have been approved under Article 1, paragraph (2) of the Export Trade Control Order revised through Article 48, paragraph (1) of the New Act or this Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as the "New Order") or have been permitted under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the New Order, pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 of the Supplementary Provisions of the Revised Act, conditions attached to permission under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Export Trade Control Order prior to its revision by this Cabinet Order (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Order") pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (6) of the same Article will be deemed to be conditions attached to approval under Article 48, paragraph (1) of the New Act or Article 1, paragraph (1) of the New Order or conditions attached to permission under Article 2, paragraph (1) of the New Order, pursuant to the provisions of Article 1, paragraph (4) or Article 2, paragraph (6) of the New Order, respectively.
Article 4The valid period of the approval or permission for export of goods prescribed in the preceding Article will be three months from the day on which permission under Article 1, paragraph (1) of the Former Order was granted (where any valid period different from the period set forth in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the Former Order was determined pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (2) of the same Article, or where such valid period was extended, the valid period of the approval or permission will be this period).
Article 5With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, the penal provisions previously in force at the time of said acts will continue to apply.
Supplementary Provisions [Cabinet Order No. 141 of May 18, 2011][Cabinet Order No. 141 of May 18, 2011]
(Effective Date)
Article 1This Cabinet Order will come into effect as of July 1, 2011.
(Transitional Measures Concerning Penal Provisions)
Article 2With regard to the application of penal provisions to acts committed prior to the enforcement of this Cabinet Order, the penal provisions previously in force at the time of said acts will continue to apply.
Appended Table 1 (Re: Article 1 and 4)
Goods | Regions | |
1 | (i) Firearms, their ammunition (including those used in the emission of light or smoke), or their accessories or parts | All regions |
(ii) Explosives (excluding ammunition), explosive dispensers or launchers, or their accessories or parts | ||
(iii) Propellants (excluding explosives) or military fuels | ||
(iv) Stabilizers for propellant powders or other explosives | ||
(v) Directed energy weapons or their parts | ||
(vi) Kinetic energy weapons (excluding firearms) or projectiles, or their parts | ||
(vii) Military vehicles, their accessories, bridges specially designed for military use, or their parts | ||
(viii) Military vessels, their hulls or accessories, or their parts | ||
(ix) Military aircraft, their accessories, or their parts | ||
(x) Antisubmarine nets, anti-torpedo nets, or buoyant electric power cables for magnetic mine sweeping | ||
(xi) Armor plating es, military helmets, body armors, or their parts | ||
(xii) Military searchlights or their control equipment | ||
(xiii) Military bacterial agents, chemical warfare (CW) agents, radioactive materials, or equipment or parts for their dissemination, protection, decontamination, detection, or identification | ||
(xiii)-2 Chemical mixtures specially formulated for the decontamination of military bacterial agents, CW agents, or radioactive materials | ||
(xiv) Biopolymers for the detection or identification of CW agents, cultures of cells used for the production of such biopolymers, biocatalysts for the decontamination or degradation of CW agents, or expression vectors, viruses, or cultures of cells that contain genetic codes required for their production | ||
(xv) Equipment and devices used in the production or testing of military propellants, or their parts | ||
(xvi) Equipment specially designed for the production of weapons, test devices, or their parts or accessories | ||
2 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Nuclear fuel materials or nuclear source materials | ||
(ii) Nuclear reactors, their components or auxiliaries, or power-generating or propulsion equipment specially designed for nuclear reactors | ||
(iii) Deuterium and deuterium compounds | ||
(iv) Artificial graphite (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(v) Equipment specially designed for the separation or reprocessing of irradiated nuclear fuel materials or nuclear source materials, or their components or controllers | ||
(vi) Equipment for the separation of lithium isotopes, or equipment for the fabrication of nuclear fuel materials | ||
(vii) Equipment for the separation of uranium or plutonium isotopes or their auxiliaries, or components (excluding those listed in (xxxi) below) | ||
(viii) Frequency changers that can be used in gas centrifuges, or their components | ||
(ix) Nickel powders, or porous metals produced from such powders | ||
(x) Equipment that can be used for the production of deuterium or deuterium compounds, or their components or auxiliaries | ||
(x)-2 Equipment for the production of uranium trioxide, uranium hexafluoride, uranium dioxide, uranium tetrafluoride, uranium metal, uranium tetrachloride, plutonium dioxide, plutonium oxalate, plutonium peroxide, plutonium trifluoride, plutonium tetrafluoride, or plutonium metal, or their auxiliaries, or components of such equipment and auxiliaries | ||
(xi) Flow-forming machines for the production of gas centrifuges, or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(xii) Machine tools or other equipment listed below and used in the development and production of nuclear weapons | ||
(1) Numerically-controlled machine tools | ||
(2) Measuring equipment (including machine tools with a measurement function) | ||
(xiii) Induction furnaces, arc furnaces, plasma melting furnaces, electron-beam melting furnaces, or their auxiliaries | ||
(xiv) Isostatic presses, or their components or controllers (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(xv) Robots listed below, or components or their controllers | ||
(1) Robots with constructional explosion protection | ||
(2) Robots designed to prevent the effects of radiation | ||
(xvi) Vibration test equipment or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(xvii) Structural materials listed below and usable for gas centrifuge rotors (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(1) Aluminum alloys | ||
(2) Carbon fibers, aramid fibers, glass fibers, or prepregs made from carbon fibers or glass fibers, or molded products made with carbon fibers or aramid fibers | ||
(3) Maraging steels | ||
(4) Titanium alloys | ||
(xviii) Metals, waste, or scraps of beryllium or beryllium alloys, or beryllium compounds, or their primary or semi-finished products (excluding primary or semi-finished products of beryllium oxide used in electronics parts) | ||
(xix) Substances used as alpha sources for the detonation of nuclear weapons, or their raw materials (excluding those listed in (i) above) | ||
(xx) Boron-10 | ||
(xxi) Substances used as reducing or oxidizing agents for the production of nuclear fuel materials | ||
(xxii) Crucibles made with materials which are corrosion-resistant against actinide | ||
(xxiii) Metals, waste or scraps of hafnium or hafnium alloys, or hafnium compounds, or their primary or semi-finished products | ||
(xxiv) Metals, waste or scraps of lithium or lithium alloys, lithium compounds or mixtures containing lithium, or their primary or semi-finished products | ||
(xxv) Primary products of tungsten, tungsten carbide or alloys (limited to those that have cylindrical or hemispherical shapes or a combination of both shapes) | ||
(xxvi) Metals, waste, or scraps of zirconium or zirconium alloys, or zirconium compounds, or their primary or semi-finished products | ||
(xxvii) Electrolytic cells for fluorine production | ||
(xxviii) Equipment for the production or assembly of gas centrifuge rotors, or their components | ||
(xxix) Centrifugal balancing machines (excluding single-plane balancing machines) | ||
(xxx) Filament winding machines, or their components or controllers | ||
(xxxi) Gas laser oscillators, solid-state laser oscillators, or dye laser oscillators that can be used for the separation of uranium isotopes | ||
(xxxii) Mass spectrometers or ion sources that can be used for the analysis of nuclear fuel materials | ||
(xxxiii) Pressure gauges or bellows valves using materials which are corrosion-resistant against uranium hexafluoride (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 3) | ||
(xxxiv) Superconducting solenoid electromagnets | ||
(xxxv) Vacuum pumps used in separators for uranium isotopes (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 3) | ||
(xxxvi) Direct current power units with lower fluctuations of voltage and current | ||
(xxxvii) Electron accelerators or flash X-ray generators (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(xxxviii) Impact testing machines using projectiles | ||
(xxxix) Mechanical or electronic streak cameras or framing cameras, or their components | ||
(xl) Interferometers for measuring fluid velocities, manganin pressure gauges, or quartz pressure transducers | ||
(xli) Goods listed below and that can be used for the detonation or testing of nuclear weapons | ||
(1) Cold-cathode tubes containing three or more electrodes | ||
(2) Triggered spark gaps | ||
(3) Assemblies with a high-speed high-current switching function | ||
(4) Pulse discharge capacitors | ||
(5) Pulse generators | ||
(6) Xenon flashlamp drivers | ||
(xlii) Photomultiplier tubes with short anode pulse rise times | ||
(xliii) Neutron generators utilizing electrostatic acceleration to induce a tritium-deuterium nuclear reaction | ||
(xliv) Remote manipulators used in the prevention of radioactive exposure | ||
(xlv) Radiation shielding windows or their frames | ||
(xlvi) TV cameras or their lenses specially designed for protection from the influence of radiation | ||
(xlvii) Tritium, or tritium compounds or mixtures containing tritium | ||
(xlviii) Equipment used in the production, collection, or preservation of tritium | ||
(xlix) Platinized catalysts for the collection of tritium from heavy water or for the production of heavy water | ||
(l) Helium-3 | ||
3 | (i) Substances for raw materials of CW agents, or substances having equivalent toxicity to CW agents or their raw materials, and defined by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(ii) Equipments, as follows, for production of CW agents, or their components or accessories, and defined by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(1) Reactor vessels or reactors | ||
(2) Storage tanks, containers or receivers | ||
(3) Heat exchangers or condensers, or their components | ||
(4) Distillation or absorption columns, or their parts | ||
(5) Filling equipment | ||
(6) Agitators or their components | ||
(7) Valves or their components | ||
(8) Multi-walled piping | ||
(9) Pumps and their components | ||
(10) Incinerators | ||
(11) Gas monitoring systems and dedicated detectors | ||
3-2 | (i) Organisms or toxins, or their subunits or genes used as raw materials for military bacterial agents and defined by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(ii) Equipment, as follows, for development, production or delivery of military bacterial agents, or their components, and defined by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(1) Complete containment facilities | ||
(2) Fermenters | ||
(3) Centrifuge separators | ||
(4) Cross (tangential) flow filtration equipment and their components | ||
(5) Freeze-drying equipment | ||
(6) Protective equipment used in physical containment facilities | ||
(7) Aerosol inhalation chambers | ||
(8) Spraying or fogging systems and their components | ||
4 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Rockets, or equipment or tools for their production (including molds; hereinafter the same), or test equipment, or their components | ||
(i)-2 Unmanned aerial vehicles | ||
(ii) Individual rocket stages, or re-entry vehicles or their components, guidancesystems or thrust vector control systemsl, or production equipment or tools, test equipment, or their parts | ||
(iii) Propulsion units listed below or their components, linings for rocket motor cases, insulation materials, or separation mechanisms or staging mechanisms for multiple-stage rockets, or equipment or tools for their production, or test equipment, or their components | ||
(1) Rocket propulsion equipment | ||
(2) Turbojet engines, turbofan engines, ramjet engines, scramjet engines, pulse jet engines, combined cycle engines, or turboprop engines | ||
(iv) Flow-forming machines or their components | ||
(v) Servo valves, pumps usable for propellant controllers, or bearings that can be used in them | ||
(vi) Propellants or their raw materials | ||
(vii) Equipment or tools for the production of goods listed in (vi) above, or test equipment, or their components | ||
(viii) Continuous mixers or batch mixers (excluding those for liquids), or their components | ||
(ix) Jet mills, or equipment for the production of metal powders, or their components | ||
(x) Equipment for the production of composites, fibers, prepregs, or preforms, or their parts or accessories | ||
(xi) Nozzles used in fixing substances generated from the thermal decomposition of gas onto substrates | ||
(xii) Equipment for production of nozzles of rocket propulsion systems or re-entry vehicle nose tips, or their process controls | ||
(xiii) Isostatic presses or their controllers | ||
(xiv) Furnaces designed for the densification of carbon-carbon composites, or their controllers | ||
(xv) Structural materials listed below that can be used in rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles | ||
(1) Composites or their molded products | ||
(2) Artificial graphite | ||
(3) Powders principally made from tungsten, molybdenum, or alloys of these metals | ||
(4) Maraging steels | ||
(5) Austenitic-ferritic stainless steels stabilized by titanium | ||
(xvi) Equipment listed below usable for rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles, or their components, or equipment or tools for the production of these equipment and components, test equipment, calibration equipment, or alignment equipment, or components of these equipment and devices | ||
(1) Accelerometers | ||
(2) Gyroscopes | ||
(3) Equipment using goods listed in (1) and (2) above | ||
(4) Navigation equipment | ||
(5) Magnetic director sensors | ||
(xvii) Flight controllers systems or altitude control equipment for rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles, or their test equipment, calibration equipment, or alignment equipment | ||
(xviii) Avionics equipment or their components | ||
(xviii)-2 Thermal batteries that can be used in rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 1) | ||
(xix) Gravity meters or gravity gradiometers for use in aircraft or vessels | ||
(xx) Launch pads for rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles, or associated ground launch support equipment | ||
(xxi) Radio telemetry equipment, radio telecontrol equipment, or tracking devices that can be used in rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles | ||
(xxii) Computers for installation in rockets | ||
(xxiii) Analog-to-digital converters that can be used in rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles | ||
(xxiv) Vibration test equipment or their components, or wind tunnels, combustion test equipment, environmental test equipment, electron accelerators that can be used for the development or testing of rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles, or equipment which uses electron accelerators | ||
(xxiv)-2 Computers used in designing rockets | ||
(xxv) Materials or equipment used in reducing the level of the reflection or emission of acoustic waves (including ultrasound; hereinafter the same), electromagnetic waves, or light, or their test equipment | ||
(xxvi) Microcircuits, detectors, or radomes that can be used in rockets or unmanned aerial vehicles | ||
5 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Products of fluorine compounds designed for use in aircraft, satellites, or other types of spacecraft for space development | ||
(ii) Piezoelectric polymers or copolymers of vinylidene fluoride | ||
(iii) Aromatic polyimide products | ||
(iv) Tools used in the superplastic forming or diffusion bonding of titanium, aluminum, or alloys of these metals | ||
(v) Alloys or powders of nickel, titanium, niobium, aluminum, or magnesium, or production equipment for such alloys or powders, or their components or accessories (excluding those listed in row 2) | ||
(vi) Metallic magnetic materials | ||
(vii) Uranium-titanium alloys, or tungsten alloys (excluding those listed in row 2) | ||
(viii) Superconductive materials | ||
(ix) Hydraulic fluids mainly containing silahydrocarbon oils or chlorofluorocarbons | ||
(x) Lubricating materials mainly containing phenylene, alkylphenylene ethers, phenylene thioethers, alkylphenylene thioethers, their mixtures, or fluorinated silicone oils | ||
(xi) Vibration control liquid mainly containing dibromotetrafluoroethanes, polychlorotrifluoroethylenes, or polybromotrifluoroethylenes | ||
(xii) Refrigerant liquid mainly containing the monomers of perfluoro-polyalkyl ether triazines or perfluoro aliphatic ethers, perfluoroalkylamines, perfluorocycloalkanes, or perfluoroalkanes | ||
(xiii) Titanium boride, or semi-finished or primary ceramic products containing titanium boride | ||
(xiv) Ceramic composites mainly consisting of glass, oxide, silicon, zirconium, boron carbon or nitride | ||
(xv) Polydiorganosilane, polysilazane, or polycarbosilazane | ||
(xvi) Bismaleimide, aromatic polyamideimide, aromatic polyimide, aromatic polyetherimide, thermoplastic copolymers, poly arylene ketone, polyarylene sulfide, or polybiphenyl ether sulfone | ||
(xvii) Copolymers of vinylidene fluoride, fluorinated polyimides, or fluorinated phosphazene elastomers | ||
(xviii) Organic fibers, carbon fibers, inorganic fibers, or fibers made from materials listed in (xvi) above, or prepregs, preforms, or molded products using these fibers, their production equipment, or their components or accessories (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2, row 4, and row 15) | ||
(xix) Boron, its compounds, boron carbide, its compounds, guanidine nitrate, or nitroguanidine (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2 and row 4) | ||
6 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2) | All regions |
(i) Bearings or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(ii) Numerically-controlled machine tools or their components | ||
(iii) Gear producing machine tools, or their components, or accessories or controllers | ||
(iv) Isostatic presses, or their components or accessories(excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(v) Coating equipment, or parts used for the automatic operation of these devices | ||
(vi) Measuring equipment (including machine tools with a measurement function) listed below | ||
(1) Computer controlled or numerically- controlled coordinate measuring equipment | ||
(2) Linear and angular displacement measuring equipment | ||
(3) Equipment for measuring surface roughness | ||
(vii) Robots listed below, or their components or control devices | ||
(1) Robots that perform 3D image processing or analysis in real time | ||
(2) Robots with constructional explosion protection | ||
(3) Robots designed to prevent the effects of radiation | ||
(4) Robots designed for use at high altitudes | ||
(viii) Feedback equipment, compound rotary tables, or tilting spindles that can change the angle of the centerline to another axis during grinding or cutting operations | ||
(ix) Spin-forming machines or flow-forming machines (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
7 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Integrated circuits (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(ii) Microwave equipment or their components, or components of millimeter wave equipment | ||
(iii) Signal processing equipment utilizing elastic waves or acoustic-optic effects, or their components | ||
(iv) Equipment using superconducting materials | ||
(v) Superconducting electromagnets (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2) | ||
(vi) Primary, secondary, or solar batteries | ||
(vii) High energy storage capacitors (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2) | ||
(viii) Encoders (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(viii)-2 Thyristor devices or thyristor modules switching pulse output | ||
(ix) Digital video magnetic tape recorders, digital instrumentation magnetic tape data recorders, equipment designed to convert digital video magnetic tape recorders for use as digital instrumentation data recorders, or magnetic tapes used in the testing of these recorders and equipment | ||
(x) Waveform digitizers and transient recorders | ||
(x)-2 Digital instrumentation recorders using magnetic disk storage technology | ||
(xi) Components of equipment using frequency synthesizers | ||
(xii) Signal generators using frequency synthesizers | ||
(xiii) Frequency signal analyzers | ||
(xiv) Network analyzers | ||
(xv) Atomic frequency standards | ||
(xv)-2 Spray cooling thermal management systems | ||
(xvi) Equipment for manufacturing or testing of semiconductor devices or materials, or their components or accessories | ||
(xvii) Masks or reticles, or their parts or accessories | ||
(xviii) Semiconductor substrates | ||
(xix) Resists | ||
(xx) Organometallic compounds of aluminum, gallium, or indium, or organic compounds of phosphorus, arsenic, or antimony | ||
(xxi) Hydrides of phosphorus, arsenic, or antimony | ||
(xxii) Silicon carbide wafers, gallium nitride wafers, aluminum nitride wafers, aluminum gallium nitride wafers, or ingots, boules, or other preforms of those materials | ||
8 | Computers, auxiliary devices or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
9 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Telecommunication transmission equipment, or their components or accessories (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 15) | ||
(ii) Electronic changers | ||
(iii) Telecommunication optical fibers光ファイバー通信ケーブル若しくは通信用の光ファイバー又はこれらの附属品 | ||
(iv) Deleted | ||
(v) Phased array antennas | ||
(v)-2 Radio direction finding equipment for use in monitoring or their components | ||
(v)-3 Communication jamming equipment or their components | ||
(v)-4 Equipment that can detect a position by monitoring interference of radio waves or other electromagnetic waves without sending out its own radio waves or other electromagnetic waves | ||
(vi) Equipment for the development, production, measurement, testing, or repair of goods listed in (i) to (iii), or (v) to (v)-4 above, or their components or accessories | ||
(vii) Information security equipment or their components | ||
(viii) Equipment designed to prevent the leakage of information transmission signals, or their components | ||
(ix) Information and telecommunications systems with a security functions, or their components | ||
(x) Communication cable systems capable of detecting covert interception of communications, or their components | ||
(xi) Equipment for the development, production, measurement, testing, or repair of goods listed in (vii) to (x) above | ||
10 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Underwater detection equipment utilizing sound waves, equipment for determining the position of vessels, measuring equipment for the speed over ground of vessels, or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 15) | ||
(ii) Optical detectors or their coolers, or components for such detectors or coolers, or equipment using optical detectors (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2 and row 15) | ||
(iii) Optical sensing fibers for sensing (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 9) | ||
(iv) High speed motion-picture cameras, mechanical cameras, streak cameras, electronic cameras, or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2 and row 12) | ||
(v) Reflectors | ||
(vi) Optical components made from zinc selenide or zinc sulfide, or those designed for applications in space | ||
(vii) Control devices for optical equipment or components | ||
(vii-2) Aspherical optical elements | ||
(viii) Laser oscillators or their components or accessories or test equipment (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2) | ||
(ix) Magnetometers, underwater electric field sensors or magnetic gradiometers, calibration equipment or their components | ||
(ix)-2 Equipment to detect a magnetic field or electric field underwater (limited to equipment installed with magnetometers or underwater electric field sensors) | ||
(x) Gravity meters or gravity gradiometers (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(xi) Radars or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4 and row 15) | ||
(xii) Light reflectance measuring apparatus or lenses, or non-contact devices designed to measure the surface shapes of reflectors | ||
(xiii) Production or calibration equipment for gravity meters | ||
(xiv) Materials for optical detectors or other optical components, or crystals used in laser oscillators | ||
11 | Goods (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Accelerators or their components | ||
(ii) Gyroscopes or their components | ||
(iii) Inertial navigation systems or other equipment utilizing inertial forces, or their components | ||
(iv) Gyro-astro compasses, devices that derive position or orientation by means of automatically tracking celestial bodies or satellites, electromagnetic wave receivers for global navigation satellite systems, or their components, or aircraft altimeters | ||
(iv)-2 Underwater sonar navigation equipment or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 10 and row 15) | ||
(v) Test, calibration, alignment, or production equipment, designed to be used with those listed in (i) to (iv)-2 above | ||
12 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Submersible vessels, surface-effect ships, hydrofoil vessels, or vessels designed to reduce wave drag with small a waterplane area (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 1 and row 15) | ||
(ii) Vessel components or accessories (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 1 and row 15) | ||
(iii) Ocean salvage systems with lifting capabilitiesy | ||
(iv) Underwater cameras or their accessories (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2) | ||
(v) Underwater robots (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2 and row 6) | ||
(vi) Air-independent power systems | ||
(vii) Water tunnels | ||
(viii) Syntactic foam | ||
(ix) Self-contained diving equipment (closed or semi-closed circuit types) | ||
13 | Goods listed below (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Gas turbine engines or their components | ||
(ii) Satellites or other types of spacecraft used for space development, or their components | ||
(iii) Rocket propulsion systems or their components | ||
(iv) Unmanned aerial vehicles or their components or accessories | ||
(v) Equipment for the testing, measurement, or inspection of the items listed in (i) to (iv) above or in (x) of row 15, equipment or tools for the production of such items, or their components | ||
14 | (i) Metallic fuel in particle form (including aluminum powders, but excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(ii) Substances that are major components, additives, or precursors of propellant powders or other prepared explosives; which are limited to those whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(iii) Diesel engines using nonmagnetic materials or their components, which are limited to those whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(iv) Deleted | ||
(v) Self-contained diving equipment or their components, which are limited to those whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 12) | ||
(vi) Construction machinery specially designed for aerial transportation, or their components | ||
(vii) Robots or their control devices, or their components, which are limited to those whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (excluding the items listed in the middle column of row 2, row 6, and row 12) | ||
(viii) Electrically triggered shutters (excluding those specially designed for cameras) whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(ix) Tear gases or riot agents (excluding those used for self-defense purposes), equipment for the emission, detection, or identification of these materials, protective equipment against these materials, or components of such equipment;, which are limited to those whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(x) Equipment to remove or otherwise dispose of improvised explosive devices, or their components or accessories, whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(xi) Electronic equipment designed to automatically detect or identify explosives whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
15 | Goods listed below whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
(i) Molded goods using inorganic fibers or goods listed in (xvi) of row 5 | ||
(ii) Electric wave absorbers or conductive polymers (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(iii) Nuclear heat source materials (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 2) | ||
(iv) Digitally controlled telecommunication transmission equipment and systems with more than 1,000 channels, or their components or accessories | ||
(v) Underwater acoustic equipment utilizing sound waves, or their components | ||
(vi) Optical detectors specially designed for space applications in space | ||
(vii) Radars that can identify a target automatically, radars that have a pulse duration of no more than 100 nanoseconds, or their components (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
(viii) Submersible vessels that can navigate independently (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 1) | ||
(ix) Soundproofing devices for use in vessels whose displacement tonnage exceeds 1,000 tonnes (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 1) | ||
(x) Ramjet engines, scramjet engines, combined cycle engines, or their components(excluding those listed in the middle column of row 4) | ||
16 | (i) Goods listed below (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 1, row 2, and row 4 to row 15) whose specifications comply with the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions (excluding regions listed in appended table 3) |
(1) Alloys of nickel or titanium | ||
(2) Liquids that can be used as hydraulic oil, which contain esters composed of phosphoric acid and cresol, phosphoric acid, Tris (dimethylphenyl) or Tri-n-butyl phosphate | ||
(3) Organic fibers, carbon fibers, or inorganic fibers | ||
(4) Bearings or their components therefor | ||
(5) Machine tools and other equipment listed below, or their components | ||
(a) Numerically-controlled machine tools | ||
(b) Machine tools capable of performing a mirror finish (excluding numerically-controlled machine tools) | ||
(c) Measuring equipment (including machine tools with a measurement function) | ||
(6) Secondary cells | ||
(7) Waveform digitizers and transient recorders | ||
(8) Electronic packaging robots | ||
(9) Computers, or their components | ||
(10) Telecommunication transmission equipment or their components | ||
(11) Phased array antennas | ||
(12) Communications jamming equipment or components therefor | ||
(13) Equipment that can detect a position by monitoring interference of radio waves or other electromagnetic waves without sending out its own radio waves or other electromagnetic waves | ||
(14) Optical detectors or their coolers, or components for such detectors or coolers, or equipment using optical detectors | ||
(15) Optical fibers for sensing | ||
(16) Laser oscillators or their components | ||
(17) Magnetometers, underwater electric field sensors or magnetic gradiometers, or their components | ||
(18) Gravity meters | ||
(19) Radars or their components | ||
(20) Accelerators or their components | ||
(21) Gyroscopes or their components | ||
(22) Inertial navigation systems or other equipment utilizing inertial forces, or their components | ||
(23) Gyro-astro compasses, devices that derive position or orientation by means of automatically tracking celestial bodies or satellites, electromagnetic wave receivers for global navigation satellite systems, their components, or aircraft altimeters | ||
(24) Underwater cameras vision systems or their accessories | ||
(25) Air-independent power systems | ||
(26) Open-circuit-type self-contained diving equipment or their components | ||
(27) Gas turbine engines or their components | ||
(28) Rocket propulsion systems or their components | ||
(29) Equipment for the production of those listed in (27) or (28) above, or their components | ||
(30) Aerial vehicles or their components | ||
(31) Vibration test equipment, wind tunnels, and environment test equipment that can be used for the development or testing of rockets or aerial vehicles, or their components | ||
(32) Flash X-ray generators | ||
(ii) Goods classified into Classes 25 to 40, 54 to 59, 63, 68 to 93, or 95 of the Appendix of the Customs Tariff Act (Act No. 54 of 1910) (excluding those listed in (i) above and the middle column of row 1 to row 15) |
Appended Table 2 (Re: Article 2, 4 and 11)
Goods | Regions | |
1 | Diamonds (limited to those specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice.) | All regions |
2 | Deleted | |
3 | Deleted | |
4 | Deleted | |
5 | Deleted | |
6 | Deleted | |
7 | Deleted | |
8 | Deleted | |
9 | Deleted | |
10 | Deleted | |
11 | Deleted | |
12 | Deleted | |
13 | Deleted | |
14 | Deleted | |
15 | Deleted | |
16 | Deleted | |
17 | Deleted | |
18 | Deleted | |
19 | Blood products prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing a Stable Supply of Safe Blood Products (Act No. 160 of 1956) | All regions |
20 | Nuclear source materials and nuclear fuel materials (nuclear fuel materials including spent fuels as prescribed in, Article 2, paragraph (8) of the Act on the Regulations of Nuclear Material Substances, Nuclear Fuel Substances and Nuclear Reactors (Act No. 166 of 1957); hereinafter the same) | All regions |
21 | Waste determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry as the waste of materials listed below | All regions |
(i) Materials contaminated by nuclear source materials or nuclear fuel materials | ||
(ii) Materials separated from spent fuels, and materials contaminated by such materials | ||
(iii) Radioactive isotopes, their compounds, materials containing such isotopes or compounds (including those equipped with machinery and equipment), and materials contaminated by such isotopes or compounds (excluding those listed in (i) and (ii) above) | ||
21-2 | Radioactive isotopes prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act concerning Prevention from Radiation Hazards due to Radioisotopes, etc. (Act No. 167 of 1957) and determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
21-3 | Chemical substances specified by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as raw materials for narcotics and psychotropic substances prescribed in Article 2, item (vii) of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act, or other narcotic or psychotropic substances | All regions |
22 | Deleted | |
23 | Deleted | |
24 | Deleted | |
25 | Vessels listed below (excluding only those operated with paddles or sails) | All regions |
(a) Vessels equipped with equipment or machines for fishing | ||
(b) Vessels equipped with manufacturing equipment for processing products comprising of their catches | ||
(c) Vessels equipped with storage facilities for their catches (only those equipped with storage facilities that can be loaded with their catches, etc. at the fishing grounds) | ||
26 | Deleted | |
27 | Deleted | |
28 | Wheat bran, rice bran, oat bran, fish meal, and fish waste | All regions |
29 | Feed mixtures | All regions |
30 | Seminal roots and seedlings of mints, and the myceliunm of shiitake mushrooms | All regions |
31 | Seeds of the Japanese larch | All regions |
32 | Logs of castor-aralia, birch, and oak (including hewn squares and lumbers having at least 30% curvature at the minimum cross-section) | All regions |
33 | Eels fry (fry for fish culture) | All regions |
34 | Frozen Manila clams, common orient clams, and Korean mussels | U.S.A. |
35 | Substances listed in Annexes A, B, C, and E of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer | All regions |
35-2 | (i) Specified hazardous wastes prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on the Control of Import, Export, etc. of Specified Hazardous Wastes and Other Wastes (Act No. 108 of 1992) | All regions (excluding the high seas northward of 60 degrees of southern latitude) |
(ii) Wastes prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Waste Management and Public Cleaning Act (excluding those listed in (i) above) | ||
35-3 | (i) Chemical substances listed in the upper column of Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade | All regions |
(ii) Chemical substances listed below and contained in the agricultural chemicals prescribed in Article 1-2, paragraph (1) of the Agricultural Chemicals Control Act (Act No. 82 of 1948); however, limited to those determined and publicly notified by the Minister of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(1) Agricultural chemicals for which registration application was denied under Article 3, paragraph (3) of the Agricultural Chemicals Control Act due to them being subject to any of the provisions of Article 3, paragraph (1), item (iii) to item (vii) of the Act | ||
(2) Agricultural chemicals for which registration was cancelled under Article 6-3, paragraph (1) of the Agricultural Chemicals Control Act due to any events prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (iii) to item (vii) of the Act having occurred | ||
(3) Agricultural chemicals of which sales were prohibited under Article 9, paragraph (2) of the Agricultural Chemicals Control Act due to it being necessary to prohibit such sales in order to prevent any events prescribed in Article 3, paragraph (1), item (iii) to item (vii) of the Act from occurring | ||
(iii) Specified poisonous substances prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Poisonous Substances Control Act (Act No. 303 of 1950) (excluding those listed in (1) above) | ||
(iv) Chemical substances contained in the pesticides listed below that are pharmaceutical products prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act (Act No. 145 of 1960) or quasi-pharmaceutical products prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act, limited to those determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry | ||
(1) Pesticides that are pharmaceutical products or quasi-pharmaceutical products for which an approval was not granted under Article 14, paragraph (2), item (iii), (b) of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act due to being subject to said Act | ||
(2) Pesticides that are pharmaceutical products or quasi-pharmaceutical products for which approval was withdrawn under Article 74-2, paragraph (1) of the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act due to being subject to Article 14, paragraph (2), item (iii), (b) of the Act | ||
(v) Materials prescribed in Article 16, paragraph (1), item (ii) to item (vii), and item (ix) of the Order for Enforcement of the Industrial Safety and Health Act (Cabinet Order No. 318 of August 19, 1972) (excluding those listed in (i) above) | ||
(vi) Class 1 specified chemical substances prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacturing (Act No. 117 of 1973) (excluding those listed in (i) above) | ||
36 | Animals or plants that belong to the species listed in Appendices I or II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or parts, eggs, seeds, specimens, processed products, or other derivatives of such animals or plants (excluding those listed in the middle columns of rows 37 and 43; limited to those determined and publicly notified by the Minister of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) | All regions |
37 | Individuals organisms (prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (2), item (iii) of the Act on Conservation of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Act No. 75 of 1992)) that constitute the endangered species of wild flora and fauna prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (2) of the Act (excluding those listed in the middle column of row 43, as well as designated national endangered species of wild flora and fauna prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (5) of the Act; with respect to international endangered species of wild flora and fauna prescribed in Article 4, paragraph (4) of the Act, limited to those listed in Table 1 of Appended Table II of the Order for Enforcement of the Act on Conservation of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cabinet Order No. 17 of 1993)), parts, and their processed products | All regions |
38 | Mist nets | All regions |
39 | Forged, altered, or counterfeit currencies, postage stamps and revenue stamps | All regions |
40 | Books, drawings, and other goods with content that supports or incites any revolts | All regions |
41 | Books, drawings, sculptures, and other goods that may corrupt public morals | All regions |
42 | Narcotics prescribed in Article 2, item (i) of the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act, psychotropic substances prescribed in Article 2, item (vi) of the Act and related equipment, cannabis prescribed in Article 1 of the Cannabis Control Act (Act No. 124 of 1948) and related equipment, opium prescribed in Article 3, item (ii) of the Opium Act (Act No. 71 of 1954) and related equipment, poppy straw prescribed in Article 3, item (iii) of the Act, and stimulants prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Stimulants Control Act (Act No. 252 of 1951) and related equipment, and raw materials for stimulants prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (5) of the Act | All regions |
43 | National treasures, important cultural properties, important material folk-cultural properties, special natural monuments, natural monuments, and important works of art (with respect to special natural monuments and natural monuments, limited to those determined and publicly notified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry) | All regions |
44 | Goods that may infringe patent rights, utility model rights, design rights, trademark rights, or copyrights in destination countries or may cause misunderstanding about their country of origin, limited to those specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry | All regions |
45 | Goods for which qualification procedures were taken under Article 69-12, paragraph (1) of the Customs Act (Act No. 61 of 1954) (excluding those ordered to be reshippe in accordance with Article 69-11, paragraph (2) of the Act, those certified under Article 69-12 , paragraph (5) of the Act as not falling under goods listed in Article 69-11, paragraph (1), item (ix) or item (x) of the Act, and those for which qualification procedures were cancelled under Article 69-15, paragraph (10), or Article 69-20, paragraph (11) of the Act) | All regions |
Appended Table 2-2 (Re: Articles 2 and 4)
(i)Beef (limited to frozen beef)
(ii)Fish fillets (limited to frozen fillets which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in a public notice)
(iii)Caviar and caviar substitutes made from fish eggs
(iv)Alcoholic beverages
(v)Manufactured tobacco and tobacco substitutes
(vi)Perfume and cologne
(vii)Preparations for use in cosmetics, makeup or skin care (including preparations for use in sun-block or tanning, not including medicine) and preparations for use in finger or toe nail polish
(viii)Trunks, suitcases, cosmetics bags, executive cases, briefcases, school bags, or other equivalent containers (limited to those whose outer surface is made of leather, composition leather, or patent leather)
(ix)Handbags (limited to those whose outer surface is made of leather, composition leather, or patent leather)
(x)Wallets or other goods usually carried in pockets or handbags (limited to those whose outer surface is made of leather, composition leather, or patent leather)
(xi)Clothes and clothing accessories (limited to those made of leather or composition leather)
(xii)Fur coats or other fur products and artificial fur products
(xiii)Carpets or other floor coverings made of woven fabric
(xiv)Drinking glasses made of lead glass
(xv)Natural or cultivated pearls, precious stones, semiprecious stones, specified metals (meaning silver, gold, white gold, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, and ruthenium; the same will apply hereinafter), metals coated with specified metals and products made of them
(xvi)Portable digital automatic data processing equipment (limited to those at least consisting of a central processing unit, keyboard, and display)
(xvii)Microphones and microphone stands, loudspeakers, headphones and earphones, devices combining microphones and loud speakers, audio amplifiers, and electric sound amplifiers
(xviii)Audio playback equipment, audio recording equipment, and equipment for recording or reproducing video, and their components and accessories
(xix)Media for audio recording or other equivalent recording (not including those for photographs or motion pictures, but including those that record audio or its equivalent)
(xx)Video camera recorders and digital cameras
(xxi)Radio receivers (including those that can receive cordless telephones or radiotelegraphy)
(xxii)Television sets (limited to color television sets specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice), video monitors (limited to color video monitors), and video projectors
(xxiii)Automobiles
(xxiv)Motorcycles (including mopeds) and motor-assisted bicycles
(xxv)Yachts or other vessels for recreation or sports, and canoes
(xxvi)Cameras (limited to single-lens reflex cameras)
(xxvii)Motion-picture cameras and projectors
(xxviii)Projectors, photographic enlargers, and photographic reducers (not including motion pictures)
(xxix)Projection screens
(xxx)Wristwatches, pocket watches, or other portable watches (including stopwatches)
(xxxi)Musical instruments and their components and accessories
(xxxii)Fountain pens
(xxxiii)Works of art, collectibles, and antiques
Appended Table 3 (Re: Article 4)
Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America
Appended Table 3-2 (Re: Article 4)
Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Eritrea, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, North Korea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Sudan
Appended Table 3-3 (Re: Article 4)
Goods listed in row 5 (xiv) or (xviii), row 7 (xv) or (xvi), the middle column of row 8, row 9 (i) or (vi), row 10 (i), (ii), (iv), (vi), (vii), (ix), (ix)-2 or (xi), row 12 (i), (ii), (v) or (vi), or row 13 (v) of Appended Table 1, which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice, or goods listed in the middle column of row 15 of the same table
Appended Table 4 (Re: Article 4)
Iran, Iraq, North Korea
Appended Table 4-2 (Re: Article 4)
Deleted.
Appended Table 5 (Re: Article 4)
(i)Relief supplies provided without charge
(ii)Product samples or advertising materials provided without charge, the total value of which is not more than two million yen (in the case of goods listed in the middle column of Appended Table 2 as specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice, which are exported to the regions listed in the right-hand column of the same table as specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice, limited to those the total value of which is not more than the amount designated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice, not exceeding two million yen)
(iii)Small packages or small parcels containing personal belongings, household articles, occupational tools or commercial tools that are sent by international mail for private use by therecipient, or similar parcels sent by other means
(iv)Supplies for vessels or aircraft to be used for foreign vessels or aircrafts
(v)Aircraft parts as well as machines and apparatus mounted on aircraft to be used for the safe arrival and departure or navigation of aircraft and their parts, which need repair and are exported without charge
(vi)Publications to be used by the National Diet Library for the purpose of international exchange
(vii)Goods which belong to the heads of foreign countries visiting Japan, their families, and attendants of both
(viii)Goods for private use by ambassadors, ministers or other similar delegates of foreign countries dispatched to Japan and staff of diplomatic establishments of foreign countries located in Japan (which means embassies, legations, consulates and other similar facilities; the same will apply hereinafter), and goods sent from diplomatic establishments of foreign countries
(ix)Medals, prize cups and trophies, badges and other similar items to be awarded to persons in foreign countries
(x)Goods donated by public institutions of Japan to public institutions of foreign countries as a token of friendship
(xi)Goods for public use sent to embassies, legations, consulates and other similar facilities of Japan
(xii)Goods imported to Japan and then exported from Japan without charge, the properties and shape of which remain the same (not including those specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice)
(xiii)Equipment for entertainment purposes imported by touring entertainers who have entered Japan
(xiv)Goods imported without charge due to being required to be exported without charge, which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice
(xv)Goods to be exported without charge due to being required to be imported without charge, which are specified by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry in public notice
Appended Table 6 (Re: Article 4)
A person who leaves Japan temporarily, or a person who departs from Japan after entering Japan temporarily | (i) Personal effects |
(ii) Occupational tools | |
A person who departs from Japan to permanently reside in a foreign country (excluding those who depart from Japan after entering Japan temporarily) | (i) Personal effects |
(ii) Occupational tools | |
(iii) Personal belongings when moving house | |
Vessel or aircraft crew | Goods considered to be for one's private use |
Notes
(i)The term "personal effects" will refer to baggage, clothing, documents, cosmetics, personal accessories and other goods intended to be used by an individual and considered necessary for said individual's private use.
(ii)The term "occupational tools" will refer to goods intended to be used by an individual and considered necessary for said individual's occupation.
(iii)The term "goods to be moved" will refer to goods intended to be used and considered necessary in order for an individual or his/her family to establish and maintain their residence.
Appended Table 7 (Re: Article 4)
Category of goods | Amount | |
1 | Acetone, ethyl ether and other goods listed in the middle column of row 21-3 of Appended Table 2 which are specified by an Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry | 300,000 yen |
2 | Goods listed in the middle column of row 28, row 29 and row 32 of Appended Table 2 | 150,000 yen |
3 | Goods listed in the middle column of row 19, row 31 and row 33 of Appended Table 2 | 50,000 yen |
4 | Goods listed in the middle column of row 30 and row 34 of Appended Table 2 | 30,000 yen |