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ECCN reference · Category 8: Marine

ECCN 8A001

Submersible vehicles and surface vessels, as follows

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

Does 8A001 need a license to your country?

Enter the full classification (for example 8A001.a) and a destination. The check reads the Country Chart, the end-use and embargo rules, and shows the rule and source behind the answer.

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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 entire entry.
    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.

  • 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: $5000; N/A for 8A001.b and .c.1
  • GBS: N/A
  • Special Conditions for STA
  • STA: License Exception STA may not be used to ship any commodity in 8A001.b, 8A001.c or 8A001.d to any of the destinations listed in Country Group A:6 (See Supplement No.1 to part 740 of the EAR).

Items in 8A001

The controls often apply to some paragraphs only, so check the full paragraph, for example 8A001.a.

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  • 8A001.a Manned, tethered submersible vehicles designed to operate at depths exceeding 1,000 m;
  • 8A001.b Manned, untethered submersible vehicles having any of the following:
  • 8A001.b.1 Designed to 'operate autonomously' and having a lifting capacity of all the following:
  • 8A001.b.1.a 10% or more of their weight in air; and
  • 8A001.b.1.b 15 kN or more;
  • 8A001.b.2 Designed to operate at depths exceeding 1,000 m; or
  • 8A001.b.3 Having all of the following:
  • 8A001.b.3.a Designed to continuously 'operate autonomously' for 10 hours or more; and
  • 8A001.b.3.b 'Range' of 25 nautical miles or more;
  • 8A001.c Unmanned submersible vehicles as follows:
  • 8A001.c.1 Unmanned submersible vehicles having any of the following:
  • 8A001.c.1.a Designed for deciding a course relative to any geographical reference without real-time human assistance;
  • 8A001.c.1.b Acoustic data or command link; or
  • 8A001.c.1.c Wireless optical data or command link exceeding 1,000 m;
  • 8A001.c.2 Unmanned, submersible vehicles, not specified in 8A001.c.1, having all of the following:
  • 8A001.c.2.a Designed to operate with a tether;
  • 8A001.c.2.b Designed to operate at depths exceeding 1,000 m; and
  • 8A001.c.2.c Having any of the following:
  • 8A001.c.2.c.1 Designed for self-propelled maneuver using propulsion motors or thrusters specified by 8A002.a.2; or
  • 8A001.c.2.c.2 Fiber optic data link;
  • 8A001.e Ocean salvage systems with a lifting capacity exceeding 5 MN for salvaging objects from depths exceeding 250 m and having any of the following:
  • 8A001.e.1 Dynamic positioning systems capable of position keeping within 20 m of a given point provided by the navigation system; or
  • 8A001.e.2 Seafloor navigation and navigation integration systems, for depths exceeding 1,000 m and with positioning "accuracies" to within 10 m of a predetermined point.

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.