Hong Kong’s Strategic Commodities Control List
Schedule 1 : Control List for Munitions and Dual-use Goods
Schedule 1 to the Regulations comprises two lists : the Munitions List and the Dual-use Goods List. They cover a wide variety of goods and technology as set out below :
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Munitions List covers firearms, ammunition, explosives, bombs and rockets, tanks and toxicological agents, etc., and equipment and technology for the production of these weapons, etc.
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- Dual-use Goods List covers a wide variety of industrial dual-use goods under the following 10 categories :
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Category 0 - Nuclear Materials, Facilities & Equipment (to be updated)
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Category 1 - Special Materials and Related Equipment (to be updated)
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Category 2 - Materials Processing (to be updated)
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Category 3 - Electronics (to be updated)
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Category 4 - Computers (to be updated)
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Category 5 (Part 1) - Telecommunications (to be updated)
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Category 5 (Part 2) - Information Security (to be updated)
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Category 6 - Sensors and Lasers (to be updated)
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Category 7 - Navigation and Avionics (to be updated)
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Category 8 - Marine (to be updated)
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Category 9 - Aerospace and Propulsion (to be updated)
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Note: With effect from 30 May 2025, amendments have been made to the control list above. The amendments are set out in the Import and Export (Strategic Commodities) Regulations (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2025 which is available at "Legal Supplement No. 2 of the Gazette published on 17 January 2025 (No. 3, Vol. 29)". Traders are recommended to refer to the amendments as well so as to obtain the latest information on the control status of individual items.
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Systems, Equipment & Components
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Materials
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Software
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Technology
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For easy identification of controls under various control regimes, the following numbering series are used :
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Wassenaar Arrangement
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Missile Technology Control Regime
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( e.g. 1.A.102 )
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Nuclear Suppliers Group,
Zangger Committee established under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty |
200 series
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( e.g. 1.A.202 )
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Australia Group
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300 series
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( e.g. 1.C.351 )
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Chemical Weapons Convention
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Note: The above numbering series apply to dual-use goods under Categories 1 to 9 only. Nuclear materials, facilities and equipment under Category 0 mirror those in the Nuclear Suppliers Group Trigger List Guidelines.
Schedule 2 : Control list for articles-in-transit
Schedule 2 to the Regulations extends controls to certain goods in transit and technological documents relating thereto, including certain specific munitions, items in the Category 0 of the Dual-use Goods List, items of nuclear concern, and articles for a use relating to nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
Schedule 3 and 4: End-use control for items known or suspected to be used in connection with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons
Schedule 3 brings end-use under control for materials, chemicals, agents and equipment for use in the production, development or use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapon purposes insofar that the importer or exporter knows that they will be used, or suspects that they might be used for those purposes.
Schedule 4 lists the activities under control in relation to articles specified in Schedule 3.