"Munitions List"
Category 2-3

Canada has exported products in Category 2-3 to ten countries in the Middle East & North Africa
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Summary
2-3: Ammunition
Ammunition and fuze setting devices for weapons in categories 2-1, 2-2 and 2-12. Includes specially designed components such as primer anvils, bullet cups, cartridge links, rotating bands, safing and arming devices, combustible cases and submunitions (for cluster bombs) including bomblets, minelets and terminally guided projectiles.

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:

2-3
Ammunition and fuze setting devices, as follows, and specially designed components therefor:

(All destinations)

a. Ammunition for the weapons controlled by 2-1., 2-2. or 2-12.;

b. Fuze setting devices specially designed for ammunition controlled by 2-3.a.

Note 1:

Specially designed components include:

a. Metal or plastic fabrications such as primer anvils, bullet cups, cartridge links, rotating bands and munitions metal parts;

b. Safing and arming devices, fuses, sensors and initiation devices;

c. Power supplies with high one-time operational output;

d. Combustible cases for charges;

e. Submunitions including bomblets, minelets and terminally guided projectiles.

Note 2:

2-3.a. does not control ammunition crimped without a projectile (blank star) and dummy ammunition with a pierced powder chamber.

Note 3:

2-3.a. does not control cartridges specially designed for any of the following purposes:

a. Signalling;

b. Bird scaring; or

c. Lighting of gas flares at oil wells.

Compiled by COAT

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