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3: <TITLE> Excerpts from the Export Control List of Canada</TITLE>
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6: <H1>Export Control List </H1>
7: The Canadian Export Control List controls the export of goods from Canada. Goods on the list require a license from the Minister of Foreign Affairs. It is promulgated under the authority of the Export and Import Control Act of Canada.
8: <p> The following are excerpts from that List regarding the export of Cryptography from Canada.
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10: These are taken from the pamphlet titled <B>A Guide to Canada's Export Controls</B> available from
11: <a href=http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ECL-locn.html>International Trade Centers of the Gov't of Canada </a> across the country.
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14: <p>The following excerpts are taken from the Guide.
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16: <H2> Group 1- International Industrial List</H2>
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18: <p><i> Definitions to the terms set out in quotations are listed in pages 49 to 55 of this Guide and apply in respect to this Group.</i>
19: <p> <h3> 1000. General Technology Note</h3>
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21: The export of "technology" which is "required" for the "development", "production" or "use" of a products embargoes in the International Industrial List is controlled according to the provisions in each Catagory.
1.3 jufi 22: <p> "Technology" "required" for the "development", "production" or "use" of a product under embargo remains under embargo even when applicable to any unembargoed product.
23: <p> Controls do not apply to that "technology" which is the minimum necessary for the installation, operation, maintenance, (checking) and repair of those products which are unembargoed or whose export has been authorised.<br>
1.1 deraadt 24: <B> N.B.</b><br>
25: This does not release the repair "technology" embargoed by Category 1085.2.a Controls do not apply to "technology" "in the public domain" or to "basic scientific research".
26: <a name=exempt><p><B>General "Software" Note</B></a><br>
27: This List does not embargo "software" which is either"<br>
28: <OL TYPE=a>
29: <LI> Generally available to the public by being:
30: <OL>
31: <LI> Sold from stock at retail selling points, without restriction, by means of:
32: <OL TYPE=a>
33: <LI> Over-the-Counter transactions;
34: <LI> Mail order transactions; <b>or</b>
35: <LI> Telephone call transactions; <b>and</b>
36: </OL>
37: <LI> Designed for installation by the user without further substantial support by the supplier; <b> or</b>
38: </OL>
39: <LI> In the public domain".
40: </OL>
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46: <H2> From the definitions of pp 49-55</H2>
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48: <DL><DT>"In the public domain"
49: <DD>As it applies to the International Lists, means "technology" or "software" which has been made available without restrictions upon its further dissemination.<BR>
50: <b> N.B.</b><br>
51: <i>Copyright restrictions do not remove "technology" or "software" from being "in the public domain".</i>
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53: <DT> "Software"
54: <DD>A collection of one or more "programmes" or "microprogrammes" fixed in any tangible medium of expression.
55: <DT> "Technology"
56: <DD>Specific information necessary for the "development", "production"
57: or "use" of a product. The information takes the form of "technical data"
58: or "technical assistance". Embargoed "technology" is defined in the
59: General Technology Note and in the International Industrial List.<br>
60: <b>N.B.</b><br>
1.3 jufi 61: <OL><LI> "Technical data" may take forms such as blueprints, plans, diagrams, models, formulae, tables, engineering designs and specifications, manuals and instructions written or recorded on other media or devices such as disk, tape, read-only memories.
1.4 ! pvalchev 62: <LI> "Technical assistance" may take forms such as instruction, skills, training, working knowledge, consulting services. "Technical assistance" may involve transfer of "technical data".
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66: <a name=1150><H2> 1150. Information Security</H2></a>
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68: <p> <b> Note:</b><br>
69: The embargo status of "information security" equipment, "software". systems.
70: application specific "assemblies", modules, integrated circuits, components or
71: functions is defined in this Category even if they are components or "assemblies"
72: of other equipment.
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74: <H3> 1151. Equipment, Assemblies and Components</H3>
75:
76: <p> Systems, equipment, application specific "assemblies", modules or integrated circuits
77: for "information security", as follows, and other specially designed components
78: therefor:
79: <OL TYPE=a>
80: <LI> Designed or modified to use "cryptography" employing digital techniques
81: ensure "information security";
82: <LI> Designed or modified to perform cryptanalytic functions;
83: <LI> Designed or modified to use "cryptography" employing analogue techniques to
84: ensure "information security", except:
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86: <LI> Equipment using "fixed" band scrambling not exceeding 8 bands and in
87: which the transpositions change not more frequently than once every
88: second;
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90: <LI> Equipment using "fixed" band scrambling exceeding 8 bands and in which
91: the transpositions change not more frequently than once every ten
92: seconds;
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94: <LI> Equipment using "fixed" frequency inversion and in which the
95: transpositions change not more frequently than once every second;
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97: <LI> Facsimile equipment;
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99: <LI> Restricted audience broadcast equipment;
100: <LI> Civil television equipment;
101: </OL>
102: <LI> Designed or modified to suppress the compromising emanations of
103: information-bearing signals;<br>
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105: <b>Note:</b><BR>
106: 1151.d. does not embargo equipment specially designed to suppress
107: emanations for health or safety reasons.
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109: <LI> Designed or modified to use cryptographic techniques to generate the spreading
110: code for "spread spectrum" or the hopping code for "frequency agility" systems;
111: <LI> Designed or modified to provide certified or certifiable "multilevel security" or
112: user isolation at a level exceeding Class B2 of the Trusted Computer System
113: Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) or equivalent;
114: <LI> Communications cable systems designed or modified using mechanical,
115: electrical or electronic means to detect surreptitious intrusion.
116: </OL><br>
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118: <B>Note:</B><BR>
119: 1151.d. does not embargo:
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121: <LI> "Personalized smart cards" using "cryptography";
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123: <LI> Equipment containing "fixed" data compression or coding techniques;
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125: <LI> Receiving equipment for radio broadcast, pay television or similar restricted
126: audience television of the consumer type, without digital encryption and where
127: digital decryption is limited to the video, audio or management functions;
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129: <LI> Portable (personal) or mobile radiotelephones for civil use, e.g. for use with
130: commercial civil cellular radiocommunications systems, containing encryption,
131: when accompanying their users;
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133: <LI> Decryption functions specially designed to allow the execution of copy-protected
134: "software", provided the decryption functions are not user-accessible.
135: </OL>
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137: <p><H3>1152. Test, Inspection and Production Equipment</H3>
138:
139: <OL TYPE=a><LI> Equipment specially designed for:
140: <OL>
141:
142: <LI> The development of equipment or tunctions embargoed by 1151., 1152.,
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144: 1154. or 1155., including measuring or test equipment;
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146: <LI>The production of equipment or functions embargoed by 1151., 1152.,
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148: 1154. or 1155., including measuring, test, repair or production equipment;
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150: </OL>
151: <LI> Measuring equipment specially designed to evaluate and validate the
152: "information security" functions embargoed by 1 151. or 1 154.
153: </OL>
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157: <H3>1153. Materials</H3>
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159: <p> None
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161: <P><H3>1154. Software</H3>
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165: <OL TYPE=a>
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167: <LI TYPE=a> "Software" specially designed or modified for the "development", "production"
168: or "use" of equipment or "software" embargoed by 1151., 1 152. or 1154.;
169: <LI> "Software" specially designed or modified to support technology embargoed by
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171: 1155.;
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173: <LI> Specific "software" as follows:
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176: <LI> "Software" having the characteristics, or performing or simulating the
177: functions of the equipment embargoed by 1151. or 1152.;
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1.3 jufi 179: <LI> "Software" to certify "software" embargoed by 1154.c.1 .;
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181: <LI> "Software" designed or modified to protect against malicious computer
182: damage, e.g. viruses.
183: </OL>
184: </OL>
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186: <B>Note:</B><BR>
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188: 1154. does not embargo:
189: <OL TYPE=a>
190: <LI> "Software" required for the "use" of equipment excluded from embargo under
191: the Note to 1151.;
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193: <LI> "Software" providing any of the functions of equipment excluded from embargo
194: under the Note to 1151.
195: </OL>
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197: <p> <H3> 1155. Technology</H3><BR>
198: Technology according to the General Technology Note for the "development", "production" or "use" of equipment or "software" embargoed by 1151., 1152.
199: or 1154.
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210: <H2><A NAME=US>Group 5- Miscellaneous Goods</a></H2>
211: <center> .<br>.<br>.<br></center>
212: <H3> United States Origin Goods</H3>
213: <p><b>
214: 5400. All goods that originate in the United States, unless they are
215: included elsewhere in this List, whether in bond or cleared by
216: Canadian Customs, other than goods that have been further
217: processed or manufactured outside the United States so as to
218: result in a substantial change in value, form or use of the
219: goods or in the production of new goods.
220: </b><br>
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223: <p> With respect to this section, an introductory note in the Forward to the Guide states:
224: <UL>
225: <H3> Re-export of United States Origin Goods</H3>
226: United States origin goods are controlled for re-export from Canada under
227: Item 5400 of Group . Although this means that all non-strategic
228: U.S. origin goods require an export permit, exporters may benefit,
1.3 jufi 229: in most cases, from the provisions of General Export Permit No. Ex. 12
1.1 deraadt 230: Canadian exporters of U.S. origin goods should be aware that depending
231: upon the nature of the goods and the country of destination, exporters
232: may be required to provide a copy of a U.S. export license or
233: verification that such goods may be exported to the specified country
234: without the U.S. license, prior to issuance of a Canadian export permit.
235: Contact the Export Controls Division for more information.
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239: Transcribed from the <B>Canada's Export Controls</B> Guide by
240: <a href=mailto:unruh@physics.ubc.ca>W. G. Unruh</a>
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