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The eBearing News
March 31, 2005
Missile Technology Control
Regime Targets Bearings
copyright © 2005 eBearing Inc.
The Missile Technology Control Regime's Commerce Control List (CCL) has been amended
to control trade in some high-precision bearings.
The MTCR Plenary Agreement is a 34-nation export control arrangement among the most technologically
advanced nations capable of producing ballistic missiles and missile-related materials and equipment.
MTCR sets a common policy that applies to all of the participating countries and is an attempt to control
the international trade in advanced arms parts and technologies.
The goal of MTCR is to stop international trade in missile systems capable of delivering weapons
of mass destruction to the global marketplace.
Originally set up in 1987 to control the flow of nuclear missile technology, the MTCR was amended in 1993
to address chemical and biological weapons as well.
click to visit the Missile Technology Control Regime website
http://www.mtcr.info
The latest change impacts Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) 2A001: Anti-Friction
Bearings and Bearing Systems and Components Therefor, and subjects the following bearings to
missile technology controls:
Radial ball bearings having all tolerances specified in accordance with ISO 492 Tolerance Class 2
(or ANSI/ABMA Std 20 Tolerance Class ABEC-9, or other national equivalents), or better and having
all the following characteristics:
An inner ring bore diameter between 12 and 50 mm;
an outer ring outside diameter between 25 and 100 mm;
and a width between 10 and 20 mm.
The move puts those bearings on a par with such things as plasma generators and rocket fuel pumps.
In the 34 participating countries, new licensing requirements will be added for companies producing those bearings.
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