"Munitions List"
Category 2-17

Canada has exported products in Category 2-17 to two countries in the Middle East & North Africa
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Summary
2-17: Miscellaneous equipment
Miscellaneous materiel, equipment and technical databases specially designed for military use and their components, including diving apparatus, mobile workshops or bridges, military construction or field engineering equipment, signature suppression equipment or coatings, nuclear reactors designed for military use, simulators for military nuclear reactors and robotic equipment.

The above summary -- by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) for its web report "Canadian Military Exports to the Middle East and North Africa" -- was derived from a detailed description of this category of munitions published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) in a document called A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls (June 2006).  This DFAIT document describes seven different groups of products on the "Export Control List" whose export is "controlled" by the Government of Canada.  One of these seven groups, known as "Group 2" or the "Munitions List," is comprised of 22 categories of military products.  These are the categories of products whose export is documented in a series of DFAIT documents published since 1990, called Export of Military Goods from Canada.

The relevant section from A Guide to Canada’s Export Controls detailing this category on the "Munitions List" is provided below:
Saudi Arabia
Turkey

2-17

Miscellaneous equipment, materials and libraries, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

a. Self-contained diving and underwater swimming apparatus, as follows:

1. Closed or semi-closed circuit (rebreathing) apparatus specially designed for military use (i.e., specially designed to be non magnetic) ;

2. Specially designed components for use in the conversion of open-circuit apparatus to military use;

3. Articles designed exclusively for military use with selfcontained diving and underwater swimming apparatus;

b. Construction equipment specially designed for military use;

c. Fittings, coatings and treatments for signature suppression, specially designed for military use;

d. Field engineer equipment specially designed for use in a combat zone;

e. “Robots”, “robot” controllers and “robot” “end-effectors”, having any of the following characteristics:

1. Specially designed for military use;

2. Incorporating means of protecting hydraulic lines against externally induced punctures caused by ballistic fragments (e.g., incorporating self-sealing lines) and designed to use hydraulic fluids with flash points higher than 839 K (566°C); or

3. Specially designed or rated for operating in an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) environment;

f. Libraries (parametric technical databases) specially designed for military use with equipment controlled by the Munitions List;

g. Nuclear power generating equipment or propulsion equipment, including “nuclear reactors”, specially designed for military use and components therefor specially designed or modified for military use;

h. Equipment and material, coated or treated for signature suppression, specially designed for military use, other than those controlled elsewhere in the Munitions List;

i. Simulators specially designed for military “nuclear reactors”;

j. Mobile repair shops specially designed or modified to service military equipment;

k. Field generators specially designed or modified for military use;

l. Containers specially designed or modified for military use;

m. Ferries, other than those controlled elsewhere in the Munitions List, bridges and pontoons, specially designed for military use;

n. Test models specially designed for the “development” of items controlled by 2-4., 2-6., 2-9. or 2-10;

o. Laser protection equipment (e.g., eye and sensor protection) specially designed for military use.

Technical Notes:

1. For the purpose of 2-17., the term ‘library’ (parametric technical database) means a collection of technical information of a military nature, reference to which may enhance the performance of military equipment or systems.

2. For the purpose of 2-17., ‘modified’ means any structural, electrical, mechanical, or other change that provides a non-military item with military capabilities equivalent to an item which is specially designed for military use.


Compiled by COAT
Coalition to
Oppose the
Arms
Trade

Canadian Military Exports
to the Middle East
and North Africa