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Cabinet Decision on the Cabinet Order to Partially Amend the Foreign Exchange Order and the Export Trade Control Order
March 25, 2025
For the purposes of preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, preventing the excess accumulation of conventional weapons, and executing treaties and other international agreements, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) controls exports of goods and technologies under the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, and under the Foreign Exchange Order (hereinafter referred to as the “Exchange Order”) and the Export Trade Control Order (hereinafter referred to as the “Export Order”) pursuant to the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act.
On March 25, 2025, a Cabinet Decision was made on the Bill of the Cabinet Order to Partially Amend the Foreign Exchange Order and the Export Trade Control Order concerning the revision of the list of export goods and technologies subject to regulation based on the agreements concluded at the International Export Control Regimes.
1. Outline of the revision
The bill is to revise goods and technologies in the export regulatory list so that the Government of Japan can ensure domestic implementation of the agreements concluded within the International Export Control Regimes.
The specific details of the revision are as follows:
Related to the Appended Table of the Exchange Order:
- Revision of the provisions for electric wave absorbers [revision of column 5-(viii)]
- Addition of technology for coating ceramics [addition of column 6-(vi)]
Related to Appended Table 1 of the Export Order:
- Revision of the provisions for catalysts for the production of heavy water [revision of column 2-(xlix)]
- Addition of iodine pentafluoride [revision of column 5-(xix)]
- Addition of equipment for manufacturing metal layers [addition of column 6-(x)]
- Addition of cryogenic refrigeration equipment [addition of column 7-(xv)-3]
- Addition of fluoride compounds, hydrides, or chlorides of silicon or germanium [addition of column 7-(xxiv)]
- Addition of silicon, silicon oxide, germanium or germanium oxide, or substrates made of these materials [addition of column 7-(xxv)]
Related Materials (in Japanese)
- Summary(PDF:39KB)
- Bill of the Cabinet Order and the reasons(PDF:56KB)
- Comparison of the prior and revised provisions(PDF:71KB)
- Referential provisions(PDF:243KB)
Division in Charge
Security Trade Control Policy Division, Trade and Economic Security Bureau
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