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The article states "International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a set of United States government regulations that authorizes the President of the United States to control the export and import of defense-related material and services."

ITAR does not *authorize* the President to control munitions-related exports. ITAR implements the control. The authorization comes from the Arms Export Control Act.

See http://www.pmdtc.org/aeca.htm. Straight from the government.

Also, citations 1 and 2 are switched

134.192.45.141 23:09, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The 2 year prison and upto $100,000 fine could be mentioned.--Stone 14:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Controversy

Part of the controversy ought include exposure of the odd vagueness of ITAR. It makes a crime of exporting items that are on the munitions list (ML). ... "export" is clear enough... but determining if, for example a scientific paper contains design information on the ML is obscure. Effectively, those charged with administering ITAR do not themselves know. There are also apparently other regulations coming out of the US Commerce Office that are not as well known. It all makes for a mixed up mess of obscure and opaque regulations that seem to be hurting as much as helping. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.139.190.35 (talk) 12:23, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite needed

It's great to see an article with so many references, but the overall style of this article is turgid and bureaucratic, as if it had been written by and for government lawyers. It would probably be improved by deleting 50% of the text, with no loss in informative content. 121a0012 (talk) 02:52, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

U.S. = U.S.A.???

Hello,

Thank for this article!

Could you please be more precise about U.S.?

Is it United States of America? Or U.S. is the group of States which involved in ITAR?

Many thank for your answer.

Regards —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdi1325 (talk • contribs) 09:33, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]