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

Sources:

¹ Federation of American Scientists Arms Sales Monitoring Project, "U.S. Approved $25B in Arms Sales in FY 1996," Arms Sales Monitor 33, (February 24, 1997): 6 <http://www.fas.org/asmp/asm33.html>.

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): 108.

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>.