A Guide to Canada’s Export Control List

Summary

This document is Canada’s official guide to the Export Control List (ECL) under the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA). It details regulations, technical specifications, and classifications for dual-use goods, munitions, nuclear items, missile technology, chemical and biological agents, and strategic commodities subject to export controls.

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A GUIDE TO CANADA’S EXPORT CONTROL LIST January 2026 Government of Canada / Gouvernement du Canada

Introduction

INTRODUCTION The issuance of export and brokering permits under the Export and Import Permits Act (EIPA) is administered by the Strategic Export Controls Bureau of Global Affairs Canada. To assist exporters and brokers, the Strategic Export Controls Bureau publishes on its website (www.exportcontrols.gc.ca) important information, such as the Export and Brokering Controls Handbook, Notices to Exporters, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), and the contact information for the divisions in the Strategic Export Controls Bureau administering export controls for specific items. The website also has links to the New Export Controls Online (NEXCOL) system to submit permit applications electronically.

For information on how to apply for an export or brokering permit and additional information on export and brokering controls, please refer to our website: www.exportcontrols.gc.ca.

For detailed information on export and brokering controls, please refer to the Export and Brokering Controls Handbook: The main reference tool to assist exporters and brokers with questions about the administration of Canada’s export and brokering controls (except export of logs). The handbook includes how to obtain the necessary permits for the export or brokering of controlled items and how to comply with the requirements of the Export and Import Permits Act and its related regulations.

To enquire on the status of an export or brokering permit application: Recognized NEXCOL users can check the status of a permit application on-line. Non-recognized users can obtain, from our website (www.exportcontrols.gc.ca), the contact information for the appropriate division responsible for administering the specific control and request a status by providing their permit application identification (Ref ID) number.

Export Control List The Regulation establishing Canada’s Export Control List (ECL) can be found at the Department of Justice website at www.laws.justice.gc.ca.

It is the individual’s responsibility to conduct the due diligence required to confirm whether any intervening regulatory changes are applicable to their export or transfer.

This Guide, at time of publication, encompasses the list of items enumerated on the ECL that are controlled for export in accordance with section 3 of the EIPA. The EIPA can be found at the Department of Justice website at www.laws.justice.gc.ca.

The Guide includes military, dual-use, and strategic goods and technology and all United States-origin goods and technology that are controlled pursuant to Canada’s commitments made in multilateral export control regimes, bilateral agreements, as well as certain unilateral controls.

The Guide also includes forest products (logs, softwood lumber) agricultural and food products (peanut butter, sugar and sugar-containing products, processed foods, dog and cat food) apparel goods and vehicles that are controlled further to Canada’s international trade agreements.

Unless otherwise specified, the export controls for military, dual-use and strategic items contained in this Guide apply to all destinations except the United States.

The most recent versions of each multilateral export control regime’s control lists included in this version of the Guide are:

Wassenaar Arrangement: December 2025
Nuclear Suppliers Group: July 2025
Missile Technology Control Regime: March 2024
Australia Group: June 2025

Table of Contents Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GROUP 1 – DUAL-USE LIST (Page 1)
- Category 1: Special Materials and Related Equipment (Page 2)
- LIST – “EXPLOSIVES” (Page 20)
- Category 2: Materials Processing (Page 23)
- TABLE - DEPOSITION TECHNIQUES (Page 33)
- Category 3: Electronics (Page 44)
- Category 4: Computers (Page 71)
- Category 5 - Part 1: Telecommunications (Page 77)
- Category 5 - Part 2: “Information Security” (Page 86)
- Category 6: Sensors and “Lasers” (Page 94)
- Category 7: Navigation and Avionics (Page 133)
- Category 8: Marine (Page 142)
- Category 9: Aerospace and Propulsion (Page 149)
GROUP 2 – MUNITIONS LIST (Page 162)
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN GROUPS 1 AND 2 (Page 193)
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN GROUPS 1 AND 2 (Page 211)
GROUP 3 – NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION LIST (Page 217)
GROUP 4 – NUCLEAR-RELATED DUAL-USE LIST (Page 248)
DEFINITIONS OF TERMS USED IN GROUPS 3 AND 4 (Page 276)
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS USED IN GROUPS 3 AND 4 (Page 280)
GROUP 5 – MISCELLANEOUS GOODS AND TECHNOLOGY (Page 282)
GROUP 6 – MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME LIST (Page 294)
GROUP 7 – CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS NON-PROLIFERATION LIST (Page 334)
GROUP 8 – REPEALED (Page 356)
GROUP 9 – ARMS TRADE TREATY (Page 357)
INDEX (Page 360)

Group 1 – Dual-Use List: General Notes

GROUP 1 – DUAL-USE LIST

Note 1: Terms in “quotations” are defined terms. Refer to ‘Definitions of Terms used in Groups 1 and 2’ annexed to this List, at the end of Group 2.

Note 2: In some instances chemicals are listed by name and Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) number. The list applies to chemicals of the same structural formula (including hydrates) regardless of name or CAS number.

GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NOTE: The export of “technology” which is “required” for the “development”, “production” or “use” of items controlled in the Dual-Use List is controlled according to the provisions in each Category. This “technology” remains under control even when applicable to any uncontrolled item.

GENERAL SOFTWARE NOTE: The Lists do not control “software” which is generally available to the public (retail sales without restriction and designed for user installation without substantial supplier support), in the public domain, or minimum necessary object code for installation/operation.

GENERAL “INFORMATION SECURITY” NOTE: “Information security” items or functions should be considered against the provisions in Category 5 - Part 2, even if they are components, “software” or functions of other items.

1-1.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-1.A.1: Components made from fluorinated compounds (seals, gaskets, sealants, fuel bladders for aircraft/aerospace >50% fluorinated materials).
1-1.A.2: Composite structures or laminates made from organic, metal, or carbon matrix and specified fibrous/filamentary materials.
1-1.A.3: Manufactures of non-fusible aromatic polyimides.
1-1.A.4: Protective and detection equipment not specially designed for military use (gas masks, protective suits, detection systems, explosives trace detectors).
1-1.A.5: Body armour and components.
1-1.A.6: Equipment specially designed for disposal of IEDs (ROVs, disruptors).
1-1.A.7: Detonators and initiation equipment (EB, EBW, Slapper, EFI).
1-1.A.8: Shaped charges, linear cutting charges, detonating cord, cutters.

1-1.B. TEST, INSPECTION AND PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT

1-1.B.1: Filament winding machines, tape-laying machines, weaving machines, CVD equipment for fibers, NDT inspection equipment, tow-placement machines.
1-1.B.2: Metal alloy powder production equipment.
1-1.B.3: Superplastic forming/diffusion bonding tools.

1-1.C. MATERIALS

1-1.C.1: Electromagnetic radiation absorbing materials and conductive polymers.
1-1.C.2: Metal alloys, powders, and alloyed materials.
1-1.C.3: Magnetic metals and magnetostrictive alloys.
1-1.C.4: Uranium titanium alloys or tungsten alloys.
1-1.C.5: Superconductive composite conductors.
1-1.C.6: Fluids and lubricating materials.
1-1.C.7: Ceramic powders and ceramic-matrix composites.
1-1.C.8: Non-fluorinated polymeric substances (imides, polyarylene ketones, etc.).
1-1.C.9: Unprocessed fluorinated compounds.
1-1.C.10: Fibrous or filamentary materials (carbon, organic, inorganic, prepregs).
1-1.C.11: Metals and compounds (zirconium, magnesium, boron powders, guanidine nitrate, nitroguanidine).
1-1.C.12: Plutonium-238, Neptunium-237.

1-1.D. SOFTWARE & 1-1.E. TECHNOLOGY

Covers software and technology for the development, production, or use of Category 1 equipment and materials.

Group 1 – Category 2: Materials Processing

1-2.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-2.A.1: Anti-friction bearings and active magnetic bearing systems.

1-2.B. TEST, INSPECTION AND PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT

1-2.B.1: Machine tools for turning, milling, and grinding with high unidirectional positioning repeatability, EDM machines, deep-hole-drilling machines.
1-2.B.2: Numerically controlled optical finishing machine tools.
1-2.B.3: Machine tools for gear shaving/grinding.
1-2.B.4: Hot isostatic presses.
1-2.B.5: Deposition equipment (CVD, EB-PVD, plasma spraying, sputter deposition, cathodic arc, ion plating).
1-2.B.6: Dimensional inspection/measuring systems (CMM, linear displacement, laser measuring systems).
1-2.B.7: Industrial robots.
1-2.B.8: Compound rotary tables and tilting spindles.
1-2.B.9: Spin-forming and flow-forming machines.

1-2.D. SOFTWARE & 1-2.E. TECHNOLOGY

Software/technology for development, production, and use of Category 2 equipment, including the Table of Deposition Techniques.

Group 1 – Category 3: Electronics

1-3.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-3.A.1: Integrated circuits (radiation-hardened, high-temperature, ADCs, DACs, FPGAs, custom ICs, microwave/millimeter wave devices, MMICs, acoustic wave devices, superconductive circuits, high energy cells/batteries/capacitors, power switches, electro-optic modulators).
1-3.A.2: General purpose electronic assemblies (data recorders, oscilloscopes, signal analysers, signal generators, network analysers, atomic frequency standards).
1-3.A.3: Spray cooling thermal management systems.

1-3.B. TEST, INSPECTION AND PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT

Semiconductor manufacturing equipment (epitaxial growth, ion implantation, lithography, EUV masks).

1-3.C. MATERIALS

Hetero-epitaxial materials, resist materials, organo-inorganic compounds, high resistivity substrates (SiC, GaN, Ga2O3, diamond).

1-3.D. SOFTWARE & 1-3.E. TECHNOLOGY

ECAD software for GAAFET structures, computational lithography software, manufacturing technologies for semiconductors, microprocessors, and substrates.

Group 1 – Category 4: Computers

1-4.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-4.A.1: Electronic computers rated for extreme temperatures or radiation-hardened.
1-4.A.3: Digital computers with Adjusted Peak Performance (APP) exceeding 70.0 Weighted TeraFLOPS (WT).
1-4.A.4: Systolic array computers, neural computers, optical computers.
1-4.A.5: Systems/equipment specially designed for generation, command/control, or delivery of intrusion software.

1-4.D. SOFTWARE & 1-4.E. TECHNOLOGY

Software and technology for high-performance computers (APP > 24 WT) and intrusion software.

Group 1 – Category 5: Telecommunications and Information Security

PART 1: TELECOMMUNICATIONS (1-5.A.1 to 1-5.E.1)

Telecommunications equipment withstanding nuclear EMP/radiation, extreme temperatures.
Underwater communications, spread spectrum radio, ultra-wideband systems, radio direction finding, cellular interception/jamming equipment, Passive Coherent Location (PCL), IP network communications surveillance systems.

PART 2: INFORMATION SECURITY (1-5.A.2 to 1-5.E.2)

Cryptography for data confidentiality (symmetric key > 56 bits, asymmetric/post-quantum algorithms).
Cryptographic activation tokens, quantum cryptography.
Systems for defeating/weakening/bypassing information security, cryptanalytic systems, raw data extraction tools.

Group 1 – Category 6: Sensors and Lasers

1-6.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-6.A.1: Marine acoustic systems (sonar, seabed survey, hydrophones, towed arrays, diver detection sonars).
1-6.A.2: Optical sensors, space-qualified detectors, image intensifier tubes, focal plane arrays (FPAs), ROICs.
1-6.A.3: High-speed instrumentation cameras, streak cameras, framing cameras, thermal/IR imaging cameras.
1-6.A.4: Optics, deformable mirrors, lightweight monolithic mirrors, beam steering equipment.
1-6.A.5: Lasers (CW lasers, pulsed lasers, tunable lasers, semiconductor laser bars/arrays, CO/CO2 lasers, excimer lasers, chemical lasers, fiber laser components).
1-6.A.6: Magnetometers, magnetic gradiometers, underwater electric field sensors.
1-6.A.7: Gravimeters and gravity gradiometers.
1-6.A.8: Radar systems (SAR, ISAR, SLAR, phased-array radars, LIDAR).

1-6.B to 1-6.E: Test equipment, optical/laser materials, software, and technology.

1-7.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-7.A.1: Linear and angular accelerometers.
1-7.A.2: Gyros and angular rate sensors.
1-7.A.3: Inertial measurement equipment/systems (INS, IMU, AHRS).
1-7.A.4: Star trackers.
1-7.A.5: Satellite navigation receiving equipment (GNSS).
1-7.A.6: Airborne altimeters.
1-7.A.8: Underwater sonar navigation systems.

1-7.B to 1-7.E: Test/production equipment, flight control software, source code for FBW/FBL, flight management system technology.

Group 1 – Category 8: Marine

1-8.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-8.A.1: Submersible vehicles (manned, untethered, autonomous, unmanned/ROVs/AUVs).
1-8.A.2: Marine systems (underwater thrusters, automated vehicle control, underwater robots, manipulators, AIP systems, superconductive propulsion motors, pumpjet propulsion, rebreathers, diver deterrent systems).

1-8.B to 1-8.E: Water tunnels, syntactic foam, propeller design software, surface-effect vehicle/hydrofoil technology.

Group 1 – Category 9: Aerospace and Propulsion

1-9.A. SYSTEMS, EQUIPMENT AND COMPONENTS

1-9.A.1: Aero gas turbine engines.
1-9.A.2: Marine gas turbine engines.
1-9.A.4: Space launch vehicles, spacecraft, spacecraft buses, payloads.
1-9.A.5 to 1-9.A.10: Liquid/solid/hybrid rocket propulsion systems and components.
1-9.A.11: Ramjet, scramjet, combined cycle engines.
1-9.A.12: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and drones.

1-9.B to 1-9.E: Directional solidification/single-crystal casting equipment, wind tunnels, FADEC software/technology, turbine blade cooling hole technology.

Group 2 – Munitions List

Military goods and technology:

2-1: Small arms and automatic weapons (< 20 mm, <= 12.7 mm), accessories, sound suppressors, optical sights.
2-2: Large calibre weapons (>= 20 mm), howitzers, mortars, projectile launchers, smoke/gas projectors.
2-3: Ammunition and fuze setting devices.
2-4: Bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, IED handling/disposal equipment, AMPS.
2-5: Fire control, surveillance, warning equipment, weapon sights, countermeasures.
2-6: Military ground vehicles, tanks, armored vehicles, all-wheel drive vehicles.
2-7: Chemical/biological/radiological agents (CBRN), CW agents (nerve, vesicant, incapacitating, defoliants), precursors, biopolymers, biocatalysts.
2-8: Energetic materials, explosives (HMX, RDX, CL-20, TATB, etc.), propellants, pyrotechnics, fuels, additives, precursors.
2-9: Vessels of war, naval equipment, submarine diesel/electric engines, AIP, hull penetrators, silent bearings.
2-10: Military aircraft, UAVs, aero-engines, airborne refuelling, life support, parachutes, sub-orbital craft.
2-11: Electronic equipment (EW, ECM/ECCM, SIGINT, automated C2 systems, GNSS jamming).
2-12: High velocity kinetic energy weapon systems.
2-13: Armoured plate, body armour, ballistic helmets.
2-14: Military training equipment and simulators.
2-15: Military imaging, thermal/IR, countermeasure equipment.
2-16: Forgings and castings for military items.
2-17: Miscellaneous military equipment (diving gear, robots, nuclear propulsion, laser protection).
2-18: Production equipment and environmental test facilities for munitions.
2-19: Directed Energy Weapon (DEW) systems (lasers, particle beam, high-power RF, blinding lasers).
2-20: Cryogenic and superconductive equipment for military vehicles.
2-21: Military software (C3I/C4I, offensive cyber operations, weapon simulation).
2-22: Military technology.

Group 3 – Nuclear Non-Proliferation List

Items controlled for all destinations under nuclear non-proliferation agreements:

3-1: Source and special fissionable materials (natural/depleted uranium, thorium, plutonium, uranium-233, enriched uranium).
3-2: Equipment and non-nuclear materials:
- 3-2.1: Nuclear reactors, reactor vessels, fuel charging/discharging machines, control rods, pressure tubes, zirconium cladding, coolant pumps, reactor internals, heat exchangers, neutron detectors, thermal shields.
- 3-2.2: Deuterium, heavy water, nuclear grade graphite.
- 3-2.3: Irradiated fuel reprocessing plants (decladding/chopping machines, dissolvers, solvent extractors, storage tanks).
- 3-2.4: Nuclear fuel fabrication plants.
- 3-2.5: Uranium isotope separation plants (gas centrifuges, gaseous diffusion, aerodynamic, chemical/ion exchange, laser-based, plasma, electromagnetic).
- 3-2.6: Heavy water / deuterium production plants.
- 3-2.7: Uranium and plutonium conversion plants.
3-3 & 3-4: Software and technology for Group 3 items.

Dual-use items with nuclear applications:

4-1.A: Radiation shielding windows, radiation-hardened TV cameras, nuclear-rated robots/end-effectors, remote manipulators.
4-1.B: Flow-forming machines, machine tools (turning, milling, grinding), CMMs, vacuum induction furnaces, isostatic presses, vibration test systems, vacuum arc/electron-beam melting furnaces.
4-2.A to 4-2.C: Actinide crucibles, platinised catalysts, rotor tubes, tritium/lithium isotope separation equipment; aluminum alloys, beryllium, bismuth, enriched boron-10, calcium, chlorine trifluoride, composite fibers, hafnium, lithium-6, maraging steel, radium-226, titanium alloys, tungsten, nickel powder, tritium, helium-3, alpha-n radionuclides, rhenium.
4-3: Uranium isotope separation equipment (frequency changers/inverters, lasers, bellows valves, superconducting magnets, high-voltage DC power supplies, pressure transducers, vacuum pumps, scroll compressors, balancing machines, mass spectrometers).
4-4: Heavy water production equipment (packings, ammonia pumps, turboexpanders, cryogenic distillation columns).
4-5: Test and measurement equipment for nuclear explosive devices (photomultiplier tubes, flash X-ray generators, high-velocity gun systems, high-speed streak/framing cameras, hydrodynamic interferometers, fast pulse generators, blast containment vessels).
4-6: Components for nuclear explosive devices (firing sets, slapper detonators, cold-cathode tubes, spark gaps, pulse capacitors, neutron generators, high explosive substances).

Group 5 – Miscellaneous Goods and Technology

Controls under international agreements or national policy:

Forest Products: Logs, pulpwood, red cedar, softwood lumber (5101–5104).
Agricultural and Food Products: Milk products, infant formulas, peanut butter, sugar-containing products, syrups, confectioneries, processed foods, dog/cat food (5200–5208).
Apparel Goods & Vehicles (5209, 5210).
Foreign / US-Origin Goods & Technology (5400) and Goods in Transit (5401).
Other Military/Strategic Goods: Blinding laser weapons (5501), nuclear fusion reactors (5502), anti-personnel mines (5503), strategic goods (5504), catch-all controls for WMD/missile end-uses (5505).
5506: Other strategic goods and technology (cryo-CMOS, quantum computers, qubit devices/circuits, parametric amplifiers, cryogenic cooling systems, SEM equipment for chip recovery, metal additive manufacturing machines, EUV masks/pellicles, isotopically pure silicon/germanium).

Group 6 – Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) List

Category I Items:

6-1: Complete delivery systems (rocket systems, ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles, sounding rockets, UAVs/cruise missiles capable of 500 kg payload to 300 km range).
6-2: Complete subsystems (rocket stages, re-entry vehicles, heat shields, solid/liquid rocket motors, guidance sets, thrust vector control subsystems, warhead safing/arming/fuzing mechanisms).

Category II Items:

6-3: Propulsion components (turbofan/turbojet engines, ramjets/scramjets, pulse jets, rocket motor cases, staging mechanisms, propellant control valves/pumps, radial ball bearings, turboprop systems).
6-4: Propellants, chemicals (hydrazine, metal powders, solid/liquid oxidizers, HTPB, binders, burning rate modifiers, ferrocenes, gel propellants).
6-6: Production of structural composites, pyrolytic deposition, densification, graphites, UHTC ceramics, maraging steels, titanium-stabilized duplex stainless steel.
6-9: Instrumentation, navigation (accelerometers, gyros, INS, IMU, gyro-astro compasses, test tables).
6-10: Flight control systems, servo valves, attitude control.
6-11: Avionics (radar/LIDAR, GNSS receivers, EMP/EMI hardening technology).
6-12: Launch support equipment, gravimeters, telemetry/telecontrol, tracking radars, thermal batteries.
6-13: Computers (ruggedized/radiation hardened).
6-14: Analogue-to-digital converters.
6-15: Test facilities (vibration test systems, wind tunnels, test benches, environmental chambers).
6-16: Modeling-simulation and design integration software/technology.
6-17: Stealth devices, materials, coatings, and software.
6-18: Nuclear effects protection (radiation hardened microcircuits, detectors, radomes).
6-19 & 6-20: Other complete delivery systems and subsystems (range >= 300 km, aerosol dispensing UAVs, rocket motors 8.41x10^5 to 1.1x10^6 Ns).

Group 7 – Chemical and Biological Weapons Non-Proliferation List

Australia Group and Chemical Weapons Convention controls:

7-2: Manufacturing facilities and equipment (reaction vessels, agitators, storage tanks, heat exchangers, distillation columns, valves, multi-walled piping, pumps, toxic gas monitoring systems).
7-3: CWC scheduled materials (Schedule 1, 2, 3 toxic chemicals and precursors: Sarin, Soman, Tabun, VX, sulfur mustards, Lewisites, nitrogen mustards, Saxitoxin, Ricin, novichoks, DF, QL, BZ, Amiton, PFIB, phosphonyl halides, thiodiglycol, phosgene, cyanogen chloride, hydrogen cyanide, chloropicrin, etc.).
7-4: Australia Group chemical precursors (fluorides, cyanides, amines, phosphites, amidines).
7-12: Dual-use biological equipment (containment facilities P3/P4, fermenters, centrifugal separators, cross-flow filtration, freeze dryers, spray dryers, biocontainment chambers, aerosol inhalation chambers, aircraft spraying/fogging systems, DNA/RNA synthesizers, peptide synthesizers).
7-13: Biological agents (human and animal pathogens including viruses, bacteria, toxins, fungi, genetically modified organisms, plant pathogens).
7-14 & 7-15: Software and technology associated with chemical and biological controls.

Group 9 – Arms Trade Treaty

Conventional arms controlled under the Arms Trade Treaty:

9-1: Battle tanks (>= 16.5 t, main gun >= 75 mm).
9-2: Armoured combat vehicles (squad transport, weapons >= 12.5 mm, missile launchers, EW/C2 equipped, bridge-launchers).
9-3: Large-calibre artillery systems (guns, howitzers, mortars >= 75 mm, MLRS).
9-4: Military aircraft and related systems (manned/unmanned combat and support aircraft).
9-5: Military helicopters and related systems (armed/reconnaissance helicopters).
9-6: Vessels and submarines (displacement >= 150 t, or missile/torpedo equipped).
9-7: Missiles and missile launchers (rockets, ballistic/cruise missiles range >= 25 km, MANPADS).
9-8: Small arms (handguns, rifles, submachine guns, assault rifles, light machine guns <= 12.7 mm).
9-9: Light weapons (heavy machine guns > 12.7 mm, grenade launchers, anti-tank guns/missiles, recoilless rifles, mortars < 75 mm).