---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 734.13"
title: "15"
number: "734.13"
heading: "Export."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/734.13"
---

# §734.13. Export.

- (a) Except as set forth in [§ 734.17](/cfr/15/734.17.md) or [§ 734.18](/cfr/15/734.18.md), Export means:
  - (1) An actual shipment or transmission out of the United States, including the sending or taking of an item out of the United States, in any manner;
  - (2) Releasing or otherwise transferring “technology” or source code (but not object code) to a foreign person in the United States (a “deemed export”);
  - (3) **Transferring by a person in the United States of registration, control, or ownership of—**
    - (i) A spacecraft subject to the EAR that is not eligible for export under License Exception STA (i.e., spacecraft that provide space-based logistics, assembly or servicing of any spacecraft) to a person in or a national of any other country; or
    - (ii) **Any other spacecraft subject to the EAR to a person in or a national of a Country Group D—** 5 country.
- (b) Any release in the United States of “technology” or source code to a foreign person is a deemed export to the foreign person's most recent country of citizenship or permanent residency.
- (c) The export of an item that will transit through a country or countries to a destination identified in the EAR is deemed to be an export to that destination.

## Notes

### Amendments

[81 FR 35603, June 3, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 50 U.S.C. 4801-4852; 50 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; E.O. 12938, 59 FR 59099, 3 CFR, 1994 Comp., p. 950; E.O. 13020, 61 FR 54079, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 219; E.O. 13026, 61 FR 58767, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 228; E.O. E.O. 13637, 78 FR 16129, 3 CFR, 2014 Comp., p. 223; Notice of November 7, 2024, 89 FR 88867 (November 8, 2024).

### Source

Source: 61 FR 12746, Mar. 25, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[81 FR 35603, June 3, 2016]