---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 768.2"
title: "15"
number: "768.2"
heading: "Foreign availability described."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/768.2"
---

# §768.2. Foreign availability described.

- (a) **Foreign availability.** Foreign availability exists when the Secretary determines that an item is comparable in quality to an item subject to U.S. national security export controls, and is available-in-fact to a country, from a non-U.S. source, in sufficient quantities to render the U.S. export control of that item or the denial of a license ineffective. For a controlled country, such control or denial is “ineffective” when maintaining such control or denying a specific license would not restrict the availability of items that would make a significant contribution to the military potential of the controlled country or combination of countries detrimental to the national security of the United States (see sections [5(a)](/cfr/15/5.md?p=a) and [3(2)(A)](/cfr/15/3.md?p=2-A) of the EAA.)
- (b) **Types of foreign availability.** There are two types of foreign availability:
  - (1) Foreign availability to a controlled country; and
  - (2) **Foreign availability to a non-controlled country.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 50 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; E.O. 13222, 66 FR 44025, 3 CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 783; Notice of August 15, 2017, 82 FR 39005 (August 16, 2017).

### Source

Source: 61 FR 12915, Mar. 25, 1996, unless otherwise noted.