Just the Facts

Data about DCS licenses do not necessarily refer to final sales; they indicate only that the State Department has granted permission for a possible sale. The State Department estimates that about half of all export licenses it grants result in actual deliveries.¹

Commodity	2000		2001		2002		2003
	Quantity	License value	Quantity	License value	Quantity	License value	Quantity	License value
Aircraft fighter F-5 spare parts
Ammunition raw materials		3,428
Breathing Equip (Gas Masks etc)								37,750
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal	282,500	30,188	697,000	94,762	1,093,500	86,092	496,200	65,490
Chemical Agents and Herbicides								10,320
Communications equipment and components
Helmets pilot (all models)
Night Vision Goggles						4,970
Pistols and revolvers	339	90,332	210	116,487	427	171,383	372	161,067
Pistols and revolvers spare parts						2,205
Rifle (non-military, all types)	7	1,190	28	13,125	172	123,615
Ship components and spare parts				55,000
Technical Data Cat VI				1,500
Total		125,138		280,874		388,265		274,627

Table 2: 1996-1999

Commodity	1996		1997		1998		1999
	Quantity	License value	Quantity	License value	Quantity	License value	Quantity	License value
Aircraft fighter F-5 spare parts		900,000
Ammunition raw materials				1,441
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal	444,000	58,118	250,500	10,815	304,400	29,641	90,000	5,472
Communications equipment and components				3,213
Helmets pilot (all models)	6	5,784
Night Vision Goggles
Pistols and revolvers	1,581	436,382	42	11,500	7	3,483
Pistols and revolvers spare parts		3,700		711		57
Rifle (non-military, all types)	47	7,564	127	81,240	100	8,810
Ship components and spare parts
Technical Data Cat VI
Total		1,411,548		108,920		41,991		5,472

¹ United States, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, �Article: Revision of US Arms Exports Data Series,� World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 1997 (Washington: ACDA, 1997, revised January 1999) <http://www.acda.gov/wmeat97/commerce.pdf>.

² United States, Department of State, Department of Defense, Foreign Military Assistance Act Report To Congress, Fiscal Year 1996 (Washington: September 1997).

³ United States, Department of State, Department of Defense, U.S. Arms Exports: Direct Commercial Sales Authorizations for Fiscal Year 97 (Washington: August 1998): 1.

⁴ United States, Department of State, U.S. Arms Exports: Direct Commercial Sales Authorizations for Fiscal Year 98 (Washington: July 1999): 12.

⁵ United States, Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls, Report by the Department of State Pursuant to Sec. 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act (Washington: 2000) <http://www.pmdtc.org/docs/rpt655_9_99.pdf>.

⁶ United States, Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls, Report by the Department of State Pursuant to Sec. 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act (Washington: 2002) <http://www.pmdtc.org/docs/rpt655_2000.pdf>.