---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 447.57"
title: "27"
number: "447.57"
heading: "U.S. military defense articles."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/447.57"
---

# §447.57. U.S. military defense articles.

- (a)
  - (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or of parts [478](/cfr/27/part478.md) or [479](/cfr/27/part479.md) of this chapter, no military defense article of United States manufacture may be imported into the United States if such article was furnished to a foreign government under a foreign assistance or foreign military sales program of the United States.
  - (2) The restrictions in [paragraph (a)(1)](#a-1) of this section cover defense articles which are advanced in value or improved in condition in a foreign country, but do not include those which have been substantially transformed as to become, in effect, articles of foreign manufacture.
- (b) [Paragraph (a)](#a) of this section will not apply if:
  - (1) **The applicant submits with the ATF Form 6—** Part I application written authorization from the Department of State to import the defense article; and
  - (2) In the case of firearms, such firearms are curios or relics under [18 U.S.C. 925(e)](/usc/18/925.md?p=e) and the person seeking to import such firearms provides a certification of a foreign government that the firearms were furnished to such government under a foreign assistance or foreign military sales program of the United States and that the firearms are owned by such foreign government. (See [§ 478.118](/cfr/27/478.118.md) of this chapter providing for the importation of certain curio or relic handguns, rifles and shotguns.)
- (c) For the purpose of this section, the term “military defense article” includes all defense articles furnished to foreign governments under a foreign assistance or foreign military sales program of the United States as set forth in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section.

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-287, 54 FR 13681, Apr. 5, 1989, as amended by T.D. ATF-393, 62 FR 61235, Nov. 17, 1997; T.D. ATF-426, 65 FR 38198, June 20, 2000; ATF-11F, 73 FR 57240, Oct. 2, 2008]

### Authority

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2778; E.O. 13637, 78 FR 16129 (Mar. 8, 2013).

### Source

Source: T.D. ATF-8, 39 FR 3251, Jan. 25, 1974, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated by T.D. ATF-487, 68 FR 3747, Jan. 24, 2003.

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-287, 54 FR 13681, Apr. 5, 1989, as amended by T.D. ATF-393, 62 FR 61235, Nov. 17, 1997; T.D. ATF-426, 65 FR 38198, June 20, 2000; ATF-11F, 73 FR 57240, Oct. 2, 2008]