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VOLUME 3

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%C 1934
U n ited
NUMBER 66

Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 1938
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Office of Arms and Munitions ControL
I nternational T raffic nr A rms LAWS AND REGULATIONS ADMINISTERED BT THE SECRETARY OF
STATE GOVERNING THE INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC IN ARMS, AM
MUNITION, AND IMPLEMENTS OF WAR AND OTHER MUNITIONS
OF WAR
K i t h Edition

Contents
Introductory statement.
P art I. Section 5 of the Joint resolution approved by the President May 1, 1937, amending the joint resolution of August 31, 1935.
P art n . The Presidents proclamation of May 1, 1937.
P art H I. General regulations.
P art TV. Records of manufacture, export, and import.
P art V. Special provisions in regard to military secrets.
P art VI. Special provisions in regard to exportation to China, Cuba, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
P art V II. Special provisions in regard to exportation to Spain.
P art V3H. Special provisions in regard to the exportation of tin plate scrap.
P art IX. Special provisions in regard to the exportation of helium gas.

Introductory Statem ent The Secretary of State announces that the regulations con tained herein supersede, as of this date, all previous regula tions 1administered by him governing the international traffic in arms, ammunition, and implements of war, and other munitions of war.
A p r il 1, 1938.

ments of war referred to in this Act, whether as an exporter, im porter, manufacturer, or dealer, shall register with the Secretary of State his name, or business name, principal place of business, and places of business in the United States, and a list of the arms, ammunition, and Implements of war which he manufactures, im ports, or exports.
? Every person required to register under this section shall notify the Secretary of State of any change in the arms, ammunition, or implements o f war which he exports, imports, or m anu factures; and upon such notification the Secretary of State sall issue to such person an amended certificate of registration free of charge, which shall remain valid until the date of expiration of the original certificate. Every person required to register under the provisions of this section shall pay a registration fee of $500, unless he manufactured, exported, or imported arms, ammunition, and implements of war to a total sales value of less than $50,000 during the twelve months immediately preceding his registration, in which case he shall pay a registration fee of $100. Upon receipt of the required registration fee, the Secretary of State shall issue a regis tration certificate valid for five years, which shall be renewable for further periods of five years upon the payment for each renewal of a fee of $500 in the case of persons who manufactured, exported, or imported arms, ammunition, and implements of war to a total sales value of more than $50,000 during the twelve months im mediately preceding the renewal, or a fee of $100 in the case of persons who manufactured, exported, or imported arms, ammuni tion, and implements of war to a total sales value of less than $50,000 during the twelve months immediately preceding the re newal. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to refund out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $400 to every person who shall have paid a registration fee of $500 pursuant to this Act, who manufactured, exported, or imported arms, ammunition, and implements of war to a total sales value of less than $50,000 during the twelve mnnthg imme diately preceding his registration.

d It shall be unlaw ful fo r any person to export, or attempt to export, from the United States to any other state, any of the arms, ammunition,Or implements of war referred to in this Act, or to import, or attempt to import, to the United States from any other state, any of the arms, ammunition, or implements of P art I
war referred to in this Act, without first having obtained a license therefor.
SECTION 5 OF THE JOINT RESOLUTION APPROVED BY THE PRESIDENT
e All persons required to register under this section shall MAY 1, 1937, AMENDING THE JOINT RESOLUTION OF AUGUST 31, maintain, subject to the inspection o f the Secretary of State, or 1935
any person or persons designated by him, such permanent records of manufacture for export, importation, and exportation of arms, Section 5 of the joint resolution approved by the President ammunition, and implements o f war as the Secretary of State on May 1, 1937, amending the joint resolution of August 31, shall prescribe.
1935, reads as follows:
f Licenses shall be issued to persons who have registered as herein provided for, except in cases of export or import licenses Sec. 5. a There is hereby established a National Munitions Con where the export o f arms, ammunition, or implements of war trol Board hereinafter referred to as the Board to carry out the would be in violation o f this Act or any other law of the United provisions of this Act. The Board shall consist of the Secretary of States, or of a treaty to which the United States is a party, in State, who shall be chairman and executive officer of the Board, the which cases such licenses shall not be issued.
Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the g Whenever the President shall have issued a proclamation Navy, and the Secretary of Commerce. Except as otherwise provided under the authority of section 1 o f this Act, all licenses thereto in this Act, or by other law, the administration of this Act is vested fore issued under this Act shall ipso facto and Immediately upon in the Department of State. The Secretary of State fiTnn.ii promul the issuance of such proclamation, cease to grant authority to gate such rules and regulations with regard to the enforcement of export arms, ammunition, or implements of war from any place this section as he may deem necessary to carry out its provisions.
in the United States to any belligerent state, or to any state The Board shall be convened by the chairman and shall hold at least wherein civil strife exists, named in such proclamation, or to any one meeting a year.
b
Every person who engages in the business of manufacturing, neutral state for transshipment to, or for the use of, any such belligerent state or any such state wherein civil strife exists;
exporting, or importing any o f the arms, ammunition, or impleand said licenses, insofar as the grant of authority to export to the state or states named in such proclamation is concerned, Tnui be 2P.E.1120 DI.
null and void.

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