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Export Permits and Export Controls
Export Controls Handbook
The Export Controls Handbook is designed to be the main reference tool to assist exporters with questions about the administration of Canada's export controls which are administered pursuant to the Export Control List, the Area Control List and the Automatic Firearms Country Control List under the authority of the Export and Import Permits Act.
Information contained in this Handbook includes: how to obtain the necessary permits for the export or transfer of controlled items and how to comply with the requirements of the Export and Import Permits Act and its related regulations.
The Export Controls Handbook does not address requirements for the export of logs.
Some of the information in the Export Controls Handbook was previously included in the Introduction section in A Guide to Canada's Export Controls – June 2010. The Introduction to the Guide has been replaced by the Handbook. The Export Control List has not been changed. The current version of the Export Control List is found in A Guide to Canada's Export Controls – June 2010.
The Handbook contains the following sections:
- Introduction
- Objectives of Export Controls
- How to Use A Guide To Canada's Export Controls (Including the Export Control List)
- Destination and Origin Considerations
- Export Permit Application Process
- Administrative procedures and other issues
- After Issuance of an Export Permit: Compliance with Export Controls
- Customs Procedures (Canada Border Services Agency)
- Applications to Export Firearms, Related Goods, and Ammunition
- Import-Related Documents
- Further Information and Reference
Products
- Military and Strategic Goods and Technologies
- Logs
- Firearms
- United States Origin Goods and Technologies & Miscellaneous Exports
Area Control List
- Area Control List
- SER-148 Export Controls to Belarus
- SER-172 Export Controls to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Export Controls to Certain Destinations
- Information on applications to export to the following destinations: Belarus, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe
Prohibitions on military exports (see also Canadian Economic Sanctions)
- Please refer to Section D of the Export Controls Handbook
- Pakistan News Release Summary - May 28, 1998
- Guinea News Release - December 18, 2009
- Syria News Release - May 24, 2011
Canadian Economic Sanctions
Multiple destination permits
General Export Permits
- General Export Permit No. 1 - Export of Goods for Special and Personal Use Permit
- General Export Permit No. 3 - Export of Consumable Stores Supplied to Vessels and Aircraft Permit
- General Export Permit No. 5 - Export of Logs Permit
- General Export Permit No. 12 - United States Origin Goods
- General Export Permit No. 18 - Portable Personal Computers and Associated Software
- General Export Permit No. 29 - Eligible Industiral Goods
- General Export Permit No. 30 - Certain Industrial Goods to Eligible Countries and Territories
- General Export Permit No. 37 - Toxic Chemicals and Precursors to the United States
- General Export Permit No. 38 - CWC Toxic Chemical and Precursor Mixtures
- General Export Permit No. 43 - Nuclear Goods and Technology to Certain Destinations
- General Export Permit No. 44 - Nuclear-Related Dual-Use Goods and Technology to Certain Destinations
- General Export Permit No. 45 - Cryptography for the Development or Production of a Product
Export permits for cryptographic items
If your cryptographic products (including goods or technology containing cryptography) meet the criteria for control described in the Guide to Canada's Export Controls (Category 5 - Part 2 ("Information Security") of Group 1, the Dual-Use List), you should apply for an export permit for any destination other than the United States. There are a number of available types of export permits for these products.
