IV. Export control regimes

Chapter:

10. Dual-use and arms trade controls

Source:

SIPRI Yearbook 2013

Author(s):

Sibylle Bauer, Paul Holtom

In 2012 four informal, consensus-based export control regimes—the Australia Group, the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-use Goods and Technologies—worked within their specific fields to strengthen trade control cooperation.¹ One cross-regime trend throughout the year involved ongoing efforts to expand the scope of discussions and guidelines about activities and items to be subject to controls, in particular regarding brokering, transit and trans-shipment, intangible transfers of technology, and proliferation financing. Although export controls remain the regimes’ main organizing principle, associated trade activities are increasingly becoming the focus of control efforts.