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ECCN reference · Category 5: Telecommunications and information security

ECCN 5A001

Telecommunications systems, equipment, "components" and "accessories," as follows

Systems, equipment and components. Reasons for control: NS (National security), SL (Surreptitious listening), AT (Anti-terrorism).

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License requirements

Each control below comes from the entry’s License Requirements table. Where it names a Country Chart column, the countries with an X in that column need a license for the items the control covers, unless a License Exception applies.

  • NS (National security): NS applies to 5A001.a, b.5, .e, .f.3 and .h.
    Country Chart column NS1: a license is needed to 193 countries with an X

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea, South, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated State of), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin), Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Republic of, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Türkiye, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

  • NS (National security): NS applies to 5A001.b (except .b.5), .c, .d, .f (except f.3), .g, and .j.
    Country Chart column NS2: a license is needed to 156 countries with an X

    Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Curaçao, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Ghana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia (Federated State of), Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sint Maarten (the Dutch two-fifths of the island of Saint Martin), Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Republic of, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sudan, Suriname, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

  • SL (Surreptitious listening): SL applies to 5A001.f.1. A license is required for all destinations, as specified in § 742.13 of the EAR. Accordingly, a column specific to this control does not appear on the Commerce Country Chart (Supplement No. 1 to Part 738 of the EAR). Note to SL paragraph: This licensing requirement does not supersede, nor does it implement, construe or limit the scope of any criminal statute, including, but not limited to the Omnibus Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended.
  • AT (Anti-terrorism): AT applies to entire entry. No Country Chart country has an X in column AT1; the destinations this control targets are under “Not decided by the Country Chart” below.

Not decided by the Country Chart: Covered Donetsk region of Ukraine (DNR), Covered Luhansk region of Ukraine (LNR), Crimea region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, Korea, North, Syria. These destinations are under embargoes or other special controls in 15 CFR Part 746, which require a license for most items whatever the chart shows. Russia and Belarus also have broad Part 746 controls in addition to the chart.

A blank on the Country Chart is not permission to ship. End-use and end-user rules (15 CFR Part 744), embargoes and sanctions (Part 746), and the parties to the transaction still apply. Use the check above for your item and country.

List-based License Exceptions

As the entry lists them. Each exception has its own conditions in 15 CFR Part 740, and § 740.2 bars or limits most of them for Russia, Belarus, Country Group D:5 and embargoed destinations, so an entry’s “Yes” does not mean it is available everywhere.

  • LVS: N/A for 5A001.a, b.5, .e, f.3 and .h; $5000 for 5A001.b.1, .b.2, .b.3, .b.6, .d, f.2, f.4, and .g; $3000 for 5A001.c.
  • GBS: Yes, except 5A001.a, b.5, e, and h.
  • ACE: Yes for 5A001.j, except to Country Group E:1 or E:2. See § 740.22 of the EAR for eligibility criteria.
  • Special Conditions for STA
  • STA: License Exception STA may not be used to ship any commodity in 5A001.j to any of the destinations listed in Country Group A:5 or A:6 (See Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR), or any commodity in 5A001.b.3, .b.5 or .h to any of the destinations listed in Country Group A:6 (See Supplement No.1 to part 740 of the EAR).

Items in 5A001

The controls often apply to some paragraphs only, so check the full paragraph, for example 5A001.a.

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  • 5A001.a Any type of telecommunications equipment having any of the following characteristics, functions or features:
  • 5A001.a.1 "Specially designed" to withstand transitory electronic effects or electromagnetic pulse effects, both arising from a nuclear explosion;
  • 5A001.a.2 Specially hardened to withstand gamma, neutron or ion radiation;
  • 5A001.a.3 "Specially designed" to operate below 218 K (−55 °C); or
  • 5A001.a.4 "Specially designed" to operate above 397 K (124 °C);
  • 5A001.b Telecommunication systems and equipment, and "specially designed" "components" and "accessories" therefor, having any of the following characteristics, functions or features:
  • 5A001.b.1 Being underwater untethered communications systems having any of the following:
  • 5A001.b.1.a An acoustic carrier frequency outside the range from 20 kHz to 60 kHz;
  • 5A001.b.1.b Using an electromagnetic carrier frequency below 30 kHz; or
  • 5A001.b.1.c Using electronic beam steering techniques; or
  • 5A001.b.1.d Using "lasers" or light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with an output wavelength greater than 400 nm and less than 700 nm, in a "local area network";
  • 5A001.b.2 Being radio equipment operating in the 1.5 MHz to 87.5 MHz band and having all of the following:
  • 5A001.b.2.a Automatically predicting and selecting frequencies and "total digital transfer rates" per channel to optimize the transmission; and
  • 5A001.b.2.b Incorporating a linear power amplifier configuration having a capability to support multiple signals simultaneously at an output power of 1 kW or more in the frequency range of 1.5 MHz or more but less than 30 MHz, or 250 W or more in the frequency range of 30 MHz or more but not exceeding 87.5 MHz, over an "instantaneous bandwidth" of one octave or more and with an output harmonic and distortion content of better than −80 dB;
  • 5A001.b.3 Being radio equipment employing "spread spectrum" techniques, including "frequency hopping" techniques, not controlled in 5A001.b.4 and having any of the following:
  • 5A001.b.3.a User programmable spreading codes; or
  • 5A001.b.3.b A total transmitted bandwidth which is 100 or more times the bandwidth of any one information channel and in excess of 50 kHz;
  • 5A001.b.4 Being radio equipment employing ultra-wideband modulation techniques, having user programmable channelizing codes, scrambling codes, or network identification codes and having any of the following:
  • 5A001.b.4.a A bandwidth exceeding 500 MHz; or
  • 5A001.b.4.b A "fractional bandwidth" of 20% or more;
  • 5A001.b.5 Being digitally controlled radio receivers having all of the following:
  • 5A001.b.5.a More than 1,000 channels;
  • 5A001.b.5.b A 'channel switching time' of less than 1 ms;
  • 5A001.b.5.c Automatic searching or scanning of a part of the electromagnetic spectrum; and
  • 5A001.b.5.d Identification of the received signals or the type of transmitter; or
  • 5A001.b.6 Employing functions of digital "signal processing" to provide 'voice coding' output at rates of less than 700 bit/s.
  • 5A001.c Optical fibers of more than 500 m in length and specified by the manufacturer as being capable of withstanding a 'proof test' tensile stress of 2 × 10^9 N/m^2 or more;
  • 5A001.d "Electronically steerable phased array antennae" as follows:
  • 5A001.d.1 Rated for operation above 31.8 GHz, but not exceeding 57 GHz, and having an Effective Radiated Power (ERP) equal to or greater than +20 dBm (22.15 dBm Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP));
  • 5A001.d.2 Rated for operation above 57 GHz, but not exceeding 66 GHz, and having an ERP equal to or greater than +24 dBm (26.15 dBm EIRP);
  • 5A001.d.3 Rated for operation above 66 GHz, but not exceeding 90 GHz, and having an ERP equal to or greater than +20 dBm (22.15 dBm EIRP);
  • 5A001.d.4 Rated for operation above 90 GHz;
  • 5A001.e Radio direction finding equipment operating at frequencies above 30 MHz and having all of the following, and "specially designed" "components" therefor:
  • 5A001.e.1 "Instantaneous bandwidth" of 10 MHz or more; and
  • 5A001.e.2 Capable of finding a Line Of Bearing (LOB) to non-cooperating radio transmitters with a signal duration of less than 1 ms;
  • 5A001.f Mobile telecommunications interception or jamming equipment, and monitoring equipment therefor, as follows, and "specially designed" "components" therefor:
  • 5A001.f.1 Interception equipment designed for the extraction of voice or data, transmitted over the air interface;
  • 5A001.f.2 Interception equipment not specified in 5A001.f.1, designed for the extraction of client device or subscriber identifiers (e.g., IMSI, TIMSI or IMEI), signaling, or other metadata transmitted over the air interface;
  • 5A001.f.3 Jamming equipment "specially designed" or modified to intentionally and selectively interfere with, deny, inhibit, degrade or seduce mobile telecommunication services and performing any of the following:
  • 5A001.f.3.a Simulate the functions of Radio Access Network (RAN) equipment;
  • 5A001.f.3.b Detect and exploit specific characteristics of the mobile telecommunications protocol employed (e.g., GSM); or
  • 5A001.f.3.c Exploit specific characteristics of the mobile telecommunications protocol employed (e.g., GSM);
  • 5A001.f.4 Radio Frequency (RF) monitoring equipment designed or modified to identify the operation of items specified in 5A001.f.1, 5A001.f.2 or 5A001.f.3.
  • 5A001.g Passive Coherent Location (PCL) systems or equipment, "specially designed" for detecting and tracking moving objects by measuring reflections of ambient radio frequency emissions, supplied by non-radar transmitters.
  • 5A001.h Counter Improvised Explosive Device (IED) equipment and related equipment, as follows:
  • 5A001.h.1 Radio Frequency (RF) transmitting equipment, not specified by 5A001.f, designed or modified for prematurely activating or preventing the initiation of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs);
  • 5A001.h.2 Equipment using techniques designed to enable radio communications in the same frequency channels on which co-located equipment specified by 5A001.h.1 is transmitting.
  • 5A001.j IP network communications surveillance systems or equipment, and "specially designed" components therefor, having all of the following:
  • 5A001.j.1 Performing all of the following on a carrier class IP network (e.g., national grade IP backbone):
  • 5A001.j.1.a Analysis at the application layer (e.g., Layer 7 of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model (ISO/IEC 7498-1));
  • 5A001.j.1.b Extraction of selected metadata and application content (e.g., voice, video, messages, attachments); and
  • 5A001.j.1.c Indexing of extracted data; and
  • 5A001.j.2 Being "specially designed" to carry out all of the following:
  • 5A001.j.2.a Execution of searches on the basis of "hard selectors"; and
  • 5A001.j.2.b Mapping of the relational network of an individual or of a group of people.

Source

Commerce Control List, 15 CFR Part 774, Supplement No. 1 (official text on eCFR), as of August 21, 2026, 1:45AM EDT. Commerce Country Chart, Supplement No. 1 to Part 738, as of August 21, 2026, 1:45AM EDT.

This page is a preliminary reference, not legal advice, a classification ruling or permission to ship. Confirm the classification against the full official text.