Every regime your products touch, covered.
Export control rarely arrives one regime at a time. A drone module built in Munich with an American sensor, sold through a Taiwanese integrator to a British buyer, answers to four systems before it ships — and the rules in each moved within the last year. These guides explain the six regimes Thylon works in, written for the people who actually have to decide, with every claim linked to a primary source.
Guides current as of November 2026 · dated change logs on every page
ITAR
The State Department’s regime for defence articles and technical data: the 21-category Munitions List, DDTC registration, deemed exports and the § 120.54 encryption carve-out.
Read the guide →EAR & ECCN
Commerce’s dual-use system: the Commerce Control List, EAR99, de minimis and Foreign Direct Product rules, licence exceptions and the Entity List.
Read the guide →EU dual-use (2021/821)
One regulation for 27 member states: Annex I, the catch-all clauses, intra-EU transfers and the eight Union General Export Authorisations.
Read the guide →BAFA, AWG & AWV
The national layer on top of the EU regime: the Ausfuhrliste, Einzel-, Sammel- and Allgemeine Genehmigungen, the Endverbleibserklärung and 2026’s acceleration package.
Read the guide →ECJU & the UK lists
The Strategic Export Control Lists, SIEL against OIEL against OGEL, the Northern Ireland split and a licensing platform mid-migration from SPIRE to LITE.
Read the guide →SHTC & MOEA
Strategic High-Tech Commodities under the Foreign Trade Act: five control lists, an Entity List past 11,660 names, and the permits that move product.
Read the guide →Why one desk needs all six
The regimes are built on the same multilateral foundations — Wassenaar above all — which is why their control codes rhyme: 3A001 exists in Washington, Brussels and London alike. The resemblance is a trap. Parameters, decontrol notes and party lists diverge, US jurisdiction follows American content into foreign-made products, and clearing one authority clears exactly one authority. The practical consequence for a small exporter is a matrix, not a checklist.
Thylon runs that matrix as one pass: classification against every applicable list with cited reasoning, screening across the EU, UN, US, UK and Taiwanese party lists, and licence drafting for whichever authority holds the pen — with your export control officer signing every determination. Co-pilot, not autopilot.
Six regimes. One reasoning trail.
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