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last updated:9/26/03

Direct Commercial Sales (DCS): Chile

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  

Table 1: 2000-2002

Commodity
2000
2001
2002
2003
Quantity License value Quantity License value Quantity License value Quantity License value
Agreements, mfg. and tech. assistance            
Aircraft attack A-3 7 spare parts   2,016         
95,785
Aircraft attack A-5 spare parts            
Aircraft cargo C-130 spare parts            
17,984
Aircraft cargo C-135 spare parts            
Aircraft fighter F-5 spare parts   551,838        905,444 
1,039,038
Aircraft ground support equipment       1,000,000     
1,500
Aircraft patrol P-3 spare parts   1,520,545    508    73,100 
13,463
Aircraft spare parts miscellaneous   10,449,540    5,374,613    12,387,846 
25,756,259
Aircraft trainer T-37 spare parts 1  340,000         
Aircraft, unclassifiable         3  12,822,597 
Ammunition raw materials   364,906    150,000    210,979 
Amplifiers and amplification equipment       8,445    11,550 
2,261
Antennas (radio and communications types)       303,691     
7,486
Armored personnel carrier M-113 spare parts       18,925    264,119 
308,570
Armored personnel carrier M-113A1 parts       85,020    5,389 
Armored personnel carriers (misc. types)            
Armored Vehicle Spare Parts & Sup Equip            
32,235
Artillery fuzes           12,233 
Batteries (all types)            
Battery component parts            
Binoculars            
Bomb components and spare parts   76,224    98,687     
Bomb detection equipment           1,390,190 
Breathing equip (gas masks etc) 200  21,844    10,307     
Breathing equipment (underwater models)            
Carbine (all types)     12  48,967  5  17,955 
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal 4,392,450  378,377  6,232,950  251,488  16,712,600  244,933 
1,641,000
340,856
Cartridges 40mm through 75mm            
3,020
210,060
Chaff           88,600 
Chemical agent detection equipment            
Chemical agent dispensing equipment            
Chemical agents and herbicides   203,215    462,196    561,933 
79,233
Communications equipment & component   76,420        89,736 
510,691
Crypto equip. components and spare parts            
Crypto machines            
Drones target missile and aircraft            
Electronic countermeasures equipment 0  2,836         
Electronics components & spare parts 0  12,863,338    139,324    5,966,479 
1,911,029
Engine (misc. aircraft models)   120,000         
Engine diesel (all models)            
Engine jet J-79 spare parts            
Engine jet J-85 spare parts           5,000,000 
Engine jet T-53 spare parts           2,400,000 
506,679
Engine jet T-56 spare parts            
111,114
Engine spare parts and components misc       300,000     
Explosives            
Fire control system parts and components            
110,000
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) systems         2  756,382 
4
3,600,000
Generators     22  4,500  26  5,180 
Grenade launcher (all models)         24  26,400 
11
265,100
Grenades hand and weapon types            
Gyrocompass components and spare parts       31,660    48,169 
Gyrocompasses     23  700     
Helicopter 205A-Bell series            
Helicopter MD500 series            
Helicopter S-70A series            
Helicopter spare parts, miscellaneous            
Helicopter supp equip spare parts   400,000        3,550 
2,599,343
Helicopter UH-1 series            
Helicopters unclassifiable            
Helmets pilot (all models) 22  24,754      42  43,199 
28
24,972
Helmets protective (all models) 2 5  21,490  12  17,424     
5
1,223,800
Howitzer, M101 sries, towed, 105mm       16,665     
Image intensifiers 0  9,629      2  8,378 
Inertial navigation systems (all models)         2  333,815 
18
164,682
Inertial navigation systems spare parts            
Infrared viewers            
Infrared viewer spare parts           101,000 
6,045,200
Interrogator Set Spares & Components            
500
Interrogator Sets (All Models)            
2
270,000
Lasers (all models)            
Machine gun (all types)     5  92,500  2  23,192 
Machine gun spares   8,075         
Magnetrons            
Mine components and spare parts            
Missile launchers (excluding tow)     2  6,000     
Missile spare parts (non-specific type)   20    8,280     
1,047,911
Navigation systmes spares and components           12,500 
Night vision goggles   67,543    124,590  14  540,041 
391,373
Night vision scopes spares & components 0  1,666,132    423,544    822,407 
1,833,871
Night vision, AN/PVS-7A/B goggles 0  494,799         
Oxygen masks (all models)            
Parachutes (cargo)            
2
3,450
Parachutes (personnel)            
6
16,025
Periscope spare parts & components 0  4,027        4,175 
Pistols & revolvers 1,357  176,502  1,809  708,995  897  851,522 
300
93,652
Pistols & revolvers spare parts 0  158,500    144,484    9,649 
9,940
Propellants   27,557    11,226    141 
0
5,500
Protective equip (suits, gloves, etc)       32,595    3,240 
Protective equip component parts   36,465    1,725    5,507 
11,768
Pyrotechnics            
16,500
Radar systems components and spare parts       6,580     
Radio set (components and spare parts)            
Radio sets (AN/PR C, R, T series) 6  5,115      35  1,117,725 
Range finders spare parts (laser type)           310 
Receiver sets (all models)     1  152,894  5  733,900 
Receiver  Transmitters (all models)         3  81,915 
Recorders / reproducers and related equipment            
Rifle (non-military, all types) 774  379,044  462  160,635  423  202,809 
345
582,835
Rifle M-16 spare parts and components            
Riot control chemicals (anti-pers)            
Rocket launcher (all models)            
Satellites equipment spare parts   98,000    289,030    560,000 
32,730
Ship components and spare parts   2,881    258,697    1,824,660 
3,235
Small arms spare parts (rifle and carbine)       3,757    371,069 
31,157
Software XIIIB            
Sonar systems (AN/SQS series)   22,500         
Sonar systems (AN/SSQ series)     20  40,000     
55
40,500
Speech and voice scramblers            
Tank components and spare parts       36,758     
Technical data cat II            
Technical data cat III            
Technical data cat IV   2,130    1,140    20 
1,600
Technical data cat IX            
Technical data cat VI   190    50     
20
Technical data cat VII            
Technical data cat VIII   50    445    50 
100,000
Technical data cat XI   460    250     
370
Technical data cat XII   146,020    1,000     
Technical data cat XIII            
Technical data cat XV            
Technical data cat. XI            
Technical data F-16 aircraft            
Technical data F-18 aircraft            
Technical data misc.       94     
150
Telephone equip. components and spare parts            
Telescopes            
Telescopes components and spare parts           101,776 
Torpedoes     1  10,000     
Torpedo launcher components and spare parts            
Torpedoes spare parts & supp equip   41,026    301,739    198,507 
644,761
Training equipment (all types)   25,000    38,000     
62,827
Training equipment (various types)   38,000         
38,000
Transmitters (all models)            
Transponders         2  99,202 
Traveling wave tubes   72,250  3  63,500  4  191,000 
2
66,000
Trucks Military Components & Spares            
2,995
Vehicle Military Components & Spares
            
14,672,056
Weapons spare parts & components 0  924,188    15,673    4,302 
Total   31,823,446    11,257,301    51,538,775 
64,957,064



Table 2: 1996-1999



Commodity 1996 1997 1998  1999
Quantity License value Quantity License value Quantity License value Quantity License value
Agreements, mfg. and tech. assistance 6  20,000,000  3  4,029,000         
Aircraft attack A-3 7 spare parts   15,776    6,057    7,829    4,854 
Aircraft attack A-5 spare parts               98,975 
Aircraft cargo C-130 spare parts   2,320,796    1,000,754    14,115    2,013,703 
Aircraft cargo C-135 spare parts       500,000         
Aircraft fighter F-5 spare parts   790,221    3,333,439    64,923    64,016 
Aircraft ground support equipment           2,206,327     
Aircraft patrol P-3 spare parts   2,152,352        27,191    37,093 
Aircraft spare parts miscellaneous   4,587,079    3,955,831    7,893,525    4,110,875 
Aircraft trainer T-37 spare parts   12,304        19,933     
Aircraft, unclassifiable                
Ammunition raw materials   197,517    15,200    260    58,781 
Amplifiers and amplification equipment 4  122,012             
Antennas (radio and communications types)   19,800    17,475         
Armored personnel carrier M-113 spare parts       559,883    60,108    19,621 
Armored personnel carrier M-113A1 parts           11,850     
Armored personnel carriers (misc. types) 14  1,326,500             
Artillery fuzes 570  21,660             
Batteries (all types)       50,496        77,280 
Battery component parts   111,218             
Binoculars       13,080         
Bomb components and spare parts           34,365     
Bomb detection equipment                
Breathing equip (gas masks etc)               8,258 
Breathing equipment (underwater models)           8,581     
Carbine (all types) 1  2,878             
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal 10,500,400  807,985  6,231,600  557,565  8,814,100  817,815  ####  296,933 
Cartridges 40mm through 75mm 320  16,000             
Chaff                
Chemical agent detection equipment       137         
Chemical agent dispensing equipment       6,033    18,950    692,201 
Chemical agents and herbicides       63,540    109,582    144,041 
Communications equipment & component 0      5,603    48,509    963,974 
Crypto equip. components and spare parts   5,990    10,000         
Crypto machines 39  2,762,795  2  5,656         
Drones target missile and aircraft 6  216,000             
Electronic countermeasures equipment                
Electronics components & spare parts   2,783,251    450,648    247,251    368,660 
Engine (misc. aircraft models) 0               
Engine diesel (all models)             1  27,930 
Engine jet J-79 spare parts           3,000     
Engine jet J-85 spare parts           7,886,532    11,578 
Engine jet T-53 spare parts       3,400,000         
Engine jet T-56 spare parts               13,524 
Engine spare parts and components misc           8,228    2,523,286 
Explosives   6,000    20,856    61,506    60,000 
Fire control system parts and components       149,757    35,956    35,957 
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) systems     2  53,900         
Generators 1  1,086             
Grenade launcher (all models)   815             
Grenades hand and weapon types 200  8,280          20  2,480 
Gyrocompass components and spare parts   40,871    7,000         
Gyrocompasses     4  32,500         
Helicopter 205A-Bell series             1  288,700 
Helicopter MD500 series     6  12,000,000         
Helicopter S-70A series         1  11,565,117     
Helicopter spare parts, miscellaneous       239,200        6,625 
Helicopter supp equip spare parts   9,725    3,823    104,288    561,370 
Helicopter UH-1 series         1  288,700  1  350,000 
Helicopters unclassifiable 1  295,000  1  303,000  5  1,867,600     
Helmets pilot (all models) 101  94,364  39  38,074  49  44,716  16  15,408 
Helmets protective (all models)         4  3,120     
Howitzer, M101 sries, towed, 105mm                
Image intensifiers 3  222,025  7  20,602         
Inertial navigation systems (all models)                
Inertial navigation systems spare parts                
Infrared viewers         10  2,650     
Infrared viewer spare parts                
Laser components and spare parts     0  32,340         
Lasers (all models)             3  3,049 
Machine gun (all types)                
Machine gun spares   519             
Magnetrons   5,683    15,340         
Mine components and spare parts           400     
Missile launchers (excluding tow)                
Missile spare parts (non-specific type)       3,976    1,064  1  3,086 
Navigation systmes spares and components                
Night vision goggles     10  236,592  12  49,656  260  1,132,412 
Night vision scopes spares & components   11,250    10,127    311,792    84,000 
Night vision, AN/PVS-7A/B goggles                
Oxygen masks (all models)         20  2,900     
Parachutes (personnel)             17  62,660 
Periscope spare parts & components                
Pistols & revolvers 5,146  1,196,333  10,909  3,146,115  1,698  357,660  5,052  1,189,638 
Pistols & revolvers spare parts   71,058    4,355    55,160    227,723 
Propellants       33,000    156,313     
Protective equip (suits, gloves, etc)   1,154,525    21,175        684,877 
Protective equip component parts   712,236    1,255,575    414,434    4,418 
Pyrotechnics               13,316 
Radar systems components and spare parts   114,579    22,312        99,038 
Radio set (components and spare parts)   121,745        6,281     
Radio sets (AN/PR C, R, T series)                
Range finders spare parts (laser type)                
Receiver sets (all models)     1  45,000    375     
Receiver  Transmitters (all models)                
Recorders / reproducers and related equipment 2  80,000             
Rifle (non-military, all types) 1,066  281,434  1,129  440,029  288  71,182  485  289,586 
Rifle M-16 spare parts and components   4,363            1,164 
Riot control chemicals (anti-pers)               622,750 
Rocket launcher (all models) 28  581,740             
Satellites equipment spare parts               2,392,612 
Ship components and spare parts   2,536    267        892,682 
Small arms spare parts (rifle and carbine)   45,230    54,057    1,344     
Software XIIIB   500,200             
Sonar systems (AN/SQS series) 0               
Sonar systems (AN/SSQ series)     10  13,000         
Speech and voice scramblers 5  6,990             
Tank components and spare parts   122,566    41,500    33,466    7,600 
Technical data cat II                
Technical data cat III                
Technical data cat IV   700    1,040    330    500 
Technical data cat IX   0             
Technical data cat VI   20            355 
Technical data cat VII       0    110,000     
Technical data cat VIII   120    5,050    1,101     
Technical data cat XI       100    120    20 
Technical data cat XII           500     
Technical data cat XIII   0             
Technical data cat XV               100 
Technical data cat. XI   570             
Technical data F-16 aircraft       2,137         
Technical data F-18 aircraft                
Technical data misc.   555             
Telephone equip. components and spare parts       103,000         
Telescopes 26  364,000             
Telescopes components and spare parts               100,000 
Torpedoes                
Torpedo launcher components and spare parts   18,987             
Torpedoes spare parts & supp equip 0  126,868    488,832    1,249,709    529,371 
Training equipment (all types)           21,600     
Training equipment (various types)   13,254             
Transmitters (all models) 2  390        1,500  6  1,500 
Transponders                
Traveling wave tubes 1  27,075             
Vehicle military components and spares   11,250    32,000    1,505,307     
Weapons spare parts & components                
Total   44,527,076    36,856,028    37,814,721    21,198,580 

 

Sources:

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): 18-20.

1999: 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>.

2000: 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>.

2000: 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>.

2000: 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>.

2000: 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>.

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