15 CFR § 734.13 - Export.

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title: "15 CFR § 734.13 - Export."
title_number: 15
title_name: "Commerce and Foreign Trade"
section_number: "734.13"
section_name: "Export."
chapter_name: "BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
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subchapter_name: "EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS"
part_number: "734"
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# 734.13 Export.

(a) Except as set forth in § 734.17 or § 734.18, *Export* means:

(1) An actual shipment or transmission out of the United States, including the sending or taking of an item out of the United States, in any manner;

(2) Releasing or otherwise transferring “technology” or source code (but not object code) to a foreign person in the United States (a “deemed export”);

(3) Transferring by a person in the United States of registration, control, or ownership of:

(i) A spacecraft subject to the EAR that is not eligible for export under License Exception STA (*i.e.,* spacecraft that provide space-based logistics, assembly or servicing of any spacecraft) to a person in or a national of any other country; or

(ii) Any other spacecraft subject to the EAR to a person in or a national of a Country Group D:5 country.

(b) Any release in the United States of “technology” or source code to a foreign person is a deemed export to the foreign person's most recent country of citizenship or permanent residency.

(c) The export of an item that will transit through a country or countries to a destination identified in the EAR is deemed to be an export to that destination.

[81 FR 35603, June 3, 2016]