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Dual Use Goods

Sanctions

Goods, software, and technology that can be used for both civil and military purposes — subject to export controls.

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Sources

  1. EUR-Lex — Regulation (EU) 2021/821 (dual-use export control) eur-lex.europa.eu accessed 23 September 2026

The EU’s recast export-control regulation — Regulation (EU) 2021/821 of 20 May 2021, “setting up a Union regime for the control of exports, brokering, technical assistance, transit and transfer of dual-use items” — defines them as “items, including software and technology, which can be used for both civil and military purposes, and includes items which can be used for the design, development, production or use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons or their means of delivery”. Two things exporters miss: software and technology count, so an email of design files can be an export; and the regime covers brokering, transit and transfer, not just shipping goods out.

Quoted from the regulation. The controlled items themselves are listed in its annexes, which are updated regularly and are not reproduced here. India’s own list is SCOMET.

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From the AJG lexicon archive (July 2026).

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