Bill Clawson wrote: > > If launch is not an export and re-entry is not an import, than does that > mean that freight shipped by rocket would be inherently duty free?
Maybe that's what that "customs" and "trade zone" bit at the end is about... -dave w > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: Randall Clague [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 2:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ERPS] Launch = export? NOT > > This evening at the ERPS meeting, Dave Masten reported on the Space > Frontier Foundation's "The New Space Economy: A Financial Panel > Discussion," which was apparently a combined meet-n-greet and gripe session > about high launch costs and no markets. He noted that Jim Schulz > complained that ITAR is a major headache because every space launch is an > export. Mr. Schulz' information is badly dated for someone attending such > a panel, and I'm afraid I wasn't very polite in refuting Dave's secondhand > assertion. > > Several years ago, there was indeed an ambiguity in the law about whether a > launch constitutes an export. Nobody knew. So Congress told everyone > (actually, I understand the bill was written by San Diego L5 - it's an > excellent piece of legislation): a launch is not an export, and a reentry > is not an import. They made it pretty darn explicit. > > But the great thing about the Web in an open democracy is that you don't > have to take my word for it. HR 1702, the Commercial Space Act of 1998, > passed as Public Law 105-303 on 27 Jan 1998, states in part, > > >SEC. 102. COMMERCIAL SPACE LAUNCH AMENDMENTS. > > > >(a) AMENDMENTS- Chapter 701 of title 49, United States Code, is amended-- > > > >(15) in section 70117-- > > > >(C) by amending subsection (f) to read as follows: > > > >'(f) LAUNCH NOT AN EXPORT; REENTRY NOT AN IMPORT- A launch vehicle, > >reentry vehicle, or payload that is launched or reentered is not, because > >of the launch or reentry, an export or import, respectively, for purposes > >of a law controlling exports or imports, except that payloads launched > >pursuant to foreign trade zone procedures as provided for under the > >Foreign Trade Zones Act (19 U.S.C. 81a-81u) shall be considered exports > >with regard to customs entry.' > > So Dave, sorry for yelling at you, but you can see why I got exercised > about it. :-) > > -R > > -- > No electrons were harmed in the creation of this message > PETE - People for the Ethical Treatment of Electrons > Randall Clague [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > ERPS-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list > _______________________________________________ > ERPS-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
