Jurisdictions
World · Export controls as machinery

A licence regime is read as machinery — instruments, reach and throughput — not as a headline about intent.

Instruments in force
Licences pending
Median decision time
Refusal rate

Not recorded — no wired instrument-count, filing or decision-time source backs these figures.

Instrument register
Instrument · typeReachIn force
Item-level controlLicence requiredNamed items and their direct derivatives.Slowing
End-use ruleConditionalAny item, if the end use is on the restricted list.Steady
Entity listingProhibitionA named counterparty, not an item class.n/a
Extraterritorial clauseDerivedForeign-made items incorporating a controlled input.Contested
General exemptionCarve-outA defined category otherwise inside the regime.Open
How the desk reads a regime

The desk reads a regime by which instrument is doing the work, not by the statute’s title. A licence-required item control and an entity listing produce different incidence even when they name the same technology, because one is a conditional gate and the other is a flat prohibition.

Decision time, trailing

Not recorded — no wired quarterly decision-time series backs a trailing chart here.

Exposure, named
DirectA company named in an item control or an entity listing carries direct exposure.
DirectA company whose product is the named item, regardless of who buys it.
DerivedA company whose supplier is directly exposed carries derived exposure one tier down.
DerivedA company whose customer is directly exposed carries derived exposure through demand, not through the rule.
Licence pipeline by category
CategoryPendingMedian daysRefusedDirection
Item-level filingsSlowing
End-use determinationsSteady
Entity-listing appealsSlowing
General-exemption renewalsExempt

Pending, median days and refused counts are not recorded — no wired filing-level source backs them.

What changed without a rule

Some of the tightening in this regime never passed as a rule. A filing withdrawn before a decision, a conditional approval with new conditions attached, or a re-filing under a different category all change the regime’s throughput without ever showing up as a new instrument.

Withdrawn before decisionThe applicant pulled the filing rather than receive a refusal on the record.
Conditions attachedAn approval that is not the approval that was requested.
Re-filingsThe same request, filed again under a category with a different queue.
Read against the chain

Read this regime against the chain it constrains, tier by tier.

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