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Posted by at 6:50 pm on November 17, 2011
Category: BIS • Entity List

Love FestThis blog reported back in January on the removal of various Indian companies and organizations from the Entity List. This removal eliminated the requirement for licenses for certain exports to the removed companies that might not have otherwise required licenses.

An Indian website today quoted an executive of one of these removed groups who was, it seems, unenthused about the impact of the removal:

“I do not think removal of some DRDO labs from the Entity List by the U.S. has changed anything for us. The American export regulations for dual-use technologies and items need stringent clearances from their commerce and defence departments,” Saraswat [Chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (“DRDO”)] said when asked if the American policy announced during US President Barack Obama’s visit last November and implemented in January this year had helped India in anyway.

“Whether or now we are with Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), the export rules and regulations apply for us. We have to go through the process. It is not an easy process and it becomes difficult to acquire them,” he said.

“Our experience has been these regulations make it more difficult,” he added.

If that’s the case, perhaps Saraswat won’t mind if the U.S. puts DRDO back on the Entity List.

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One Comment:

India, unlike its nuclear neighbors China and Pakistan, has an admirable record of non-proliferation. It has expandeded its SCOMET list of items requiring export licenses. It would be better if India joined Wassenaar, Australia Group, MTCR, etc., but given the history of the Non-Aligned Movement and Nehru’s prominence in the Non-Aligned movement, its easy to see why joining the multilateral groups is politically difficult at home. Given India’s history of non-proliferation (beyond its own borders), there should be no Indian organization on the Entities list, and few controls beyond those applicable to NATO+4.

Comment by Hillbilly on November 20th, 2011 @ 2:37 pm