Supplement No. 1 to Part 740—Country Groups

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Title 15

Subtitle B

Chapter VII

Subchapter C

Part 740

Country Group A
Country	[A:1] Wassenaar participating states¹	[A:2] Missile technology control regime²	[A:3] Australia group	[A:4] Nuclear suppliers group³	[A:5]	[A:6]
Albania						X
Argentina	X	X	X	X	X
Australia	X	X	X	X	X
Austria	X	X	X	X	X
Belgium	X	X	X	X	X
Brazil		X		X
Bulgaria	X	X	X	X	X
Canada	X	X	X	X	X
Croatia	X		X	X	X
Cyprus			X	X		X
Czech Republic	X	X	X	X	X
Denmark	X	X	X	X	X
Estonia	X		X	X	X
Finland	X	X	X	X	X
France	X	X	X	X	X
Germany	X	X	X	X	X
Greece	X	X	X	X	X
Hungary	X	X	X	X	X
Iceland	X	X	X	X	X
India	X	X	X		X
Ireland	X	X	X	X	X
Israel						X
Italy	X	X	X	X	X
Japan	X	X	X	X	X
Kazakhstan				X
Korea, South	X	X	X	X	X
Latvia	X		X	X	X
Lithuania	X		X	X	X
Luxembourg	X	X	X	X	X
Malta			X	X		X
Mexico	X		X	X		X
Netherlands	X	X	X	X	X
New Zealand	X	X	X	X	X
Norway	X	X	X	X	X
Poland	X	X	X	X	X
Portugal	X	X	X	X	X
Romania	X		X	X	X
Serbia				X
Singapore						X
Slovakia	X		X	X	X
Slovenia	X		X	X	X
South Africa	X	X		X		X
Spain	X	X	X	X	X
Sweden	X	X	X	X	X
Switzerland	X	X	X	X	X
Taiwan						X
Türkiye	X	X	X	X	X
Ukraine⁴		X	X	X
United Kingdom	X	X	X	X	X
United States	X	X	X	X
¹ Country Group A:1 is a list of the Wassenaar Arrangement Participating States, except for Malta, Russia and Ukraine.
² Country Group A:2 is a list of the Missile Technology Control Regime countries, except for Russia.
³ Country Group A:4 is a list of the Nuclear Suppliers Group countries, except for the People's Republic of China (PRC), Russia, and Belarus.
⁴ For purposes of this supplement, as well as any other EAR provision that references the Country Groups, the designations for Ukraine also apply to the Crimea region of Ukraine. See § 746.6(c) of the EAR for an exhaustive listing of license exceptions that are available for the Crimea region of Ukraine. No other EAR license exceptions are available for the Crimea region of Ukraine. The Crimea region of Ukraine includes the land territory in that region as well as any maritime area over which sovereignty, sovereign rights, or jurisdiction is claimed based on purported annexation of that land territory.

Country Group B—Countries

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Aruba
Australia
Austria
The Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Comoros
Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
Congo (Republic of the)
Costa Rica
Cote d'lvoire
Croatia
Curaçao
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia, The
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, South
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia, Federated States of
Monaco
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Niger
Nigeria
North Macedonia
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Rwanda
Saint Kitts & Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin)
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan, Republic of
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Surinam
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Türkiye
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Western Sahara
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Country Group C [Reserved]

Country Group D
Country	[D: 1] National Security	[D: 2] Nuclear	[D: 3] Chemical & Biological	[D: 4] Missile Technology	[D: 5] U.S. Arms Embargoed Countries¹
Afghanistan			X		X
Armenia	X		X
Azerbaijan	X		X
Bahrain			X	X
Belarus	X	X	X	X	X
Burma	X		X		X
Cambodia	X				X
Central African Republic					X
China (PRC)	X		X	X	X
Congo (Democratic Republic of)					X
Cuba		X	X		X
Egypt			X	X
Eritrea					X
Georgia	X		X
Haiti					X
Iran		X	X	X	X
Iraq	X	X	X	X	X
Israel		X	X	X
Jordan			X	X
Kazakhstan	X		X
Korea, North	X	X	X	X	X
Kuwait			X	X
Kyrgyzstan	X		X
Laos	X
Lebanon			X	X	X
Libya	X	X	X	X	X
Macau	X		X	X
Moldova	X		X
Mongolia	X		X
Nicaragua	X				X
Oman			X	X
Pakistan		X	X	X
Qatar			X	X
Russia	X	X	X	X	X
Saudi Arabia			X	X
Somalia					X
South Sudan, Republic of					X
Sudan					X
Syria			X	X	X
Taiwan			X
Tajikistan	X		X
Turkmenistan	X		X
United Arab Emirates			X	X
Uzbekistan	X		X
Venezuela	X	X	X	X	X
Vietnam	X		X
Yemen	X		X	X
Zimbabwe					X
¹ Note to Country Group D:5: Countries subject to U.S. arms embargoes are identified by the State Department through notices published in the Federal Register. The list of arms embargoed destinations in this table is drawn from 22 CFR 126.1 and State Department Federal Register notices related to arms embargoes and will be amended when the State Department publishes subsequent notices. If there are any discrepancies between the list of countries in this table and the countries identified by the State Department as subject to a U.S. arms embargo (in the Federal Register), the State Department's list of countries subject to U.S. arms embargoes shall be controlling.

Country Group E ¹
Country	[E:1] Terrorist supporting countries ²	[E:2] Unilateral embargo
Cuba		X
Iran	X
Korea, North	X
Syria	X
¹ In addition to the controls maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security pursuant to the EAR , note that the Department of the Treasury administers:
(a) A comprehensive embargo against Cuba and Iran; and
(b) An embargo against certain persons, e.g., Specially Designated Terrorists (SDT ), Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO ), Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT), and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNT). Please see part 744 of the EAR for controls maintained by the Bureau of Industry and Security on these and other persons.
² The President made inapplicable with respect to Iraq provisions of law that apply to countries that have supported terrorism.

[61 FR 12768, Mar. 25, 1996] Editorial Note:For Federal Register citations affecting supplement no. 1 to part 740, see the List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the printed volume and at www.govinfo.gov.