The United States rescinded Syria's State Sponsor of Terrorism designation on 24 August 2026 and Syria was gone from the department's published list by 25 August 2026. The export-control consequence has not moved with it: Syria remains in Country Group E:1 of the Export Administration Regulations as at the eCFR text current to 21 August 2026, so the 10 per cent de minimis threshold still applies where 25 per cent would apply to a buyer outside Country Groups E:1 and E:2. The three departments' own advisory of 24 August 2026 says further EAR adjustments are expected.
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Claim ID
SST-002
Exact or summary claim
The United States rescinded Syria's State Sponsor of Terrorism designation on 24 August 2026 and Syria was gone from the department's published list by 25 August 2026. The export-control consequence has not moved with it: Syria remains in Country Group E:1 of the Export Administration Regulations as at the eCFR text current to 21 August 2026, so the 10 per cent de minimis threshold still applies where 25 per cent would apply to a buyer outside Country Groups E:1 and E:2. The three departments' own advisory of 24 August 2026 says further EAR adjustments are expected.
Destination
Chapters 6, 8 and 10
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
SRC-398, the Secretary of State's press statement of 24 August 2026; SRC-400, the department's own list checked 25 August 2026; SRC-401, the tri-seal advisory of 24 August 2026; SRC-402, eCFR's Country Groups supplement current to 21 August 2026; SRC-403, two Federal Register API searches of 25 August 2026; and SRC-221 and SRC-240 for the de minimis thresholds and the Country Group text as at 17 August 2026
Source type
Statements and published lists of the designating and regulating authorities, and the regulation itself
Published
2026-08-24
Accessed
2026-08-25
Measure and scope
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Known conflict
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Specialist
United States sanctions and export-control counsel on the EAR position; United States sovereign-debt counsel on the immunity question, which is already held open in Chapter 6
Downstream
Chapter 6's two residual measures and its account of the 10 per cent threshold; Chapter 8's account of equipment procurement; Chapter 10 || THE CHAPTER 8 AND CHAPTER 10 LIMBS ARE DECLINED, 27 AUGUST 2026, ON D-127 AND ON C2 OF THE PART THREE GATE 6 AUDIT. Chapter 6's limb was discharged at v30. THE DECLINE RESTS ON A SEARCH OF BOTH CHAPTERS AT THEIR APPROVED VERSIONS AND THE SCOPE IS STATED RATHER THAN IMPLIED: 08-energy-transition_v14.md and 10-map-of-capital_v10.md were searched case-insensitively for 'State Sponsor', 'SST', 'designat', 'Country Group', 'E:1', 'de minimis', 'Export Administration', 'rescind', 'terrorist', 'terrorism', 'sanction', 'immunity' and 'Article 54'. NOT USABLE AS A TERM: 'EAR', which returns 62 and 55 substring hits inside ordinary words in the two files and carries no signal. NOT SEARCHED: the front matter, the back matter, and the other nine approved chapters. RESULT: neither chapter mentions the designation, the Country Groups, the de minimis threshold or export control at all. Zero hits in both files for State Sponsor, SST, Country Group, E:1, de minimis, Export Administration, rescind, terrorist and terrorism. Chapter 8's two 'sanction' hits are a World Bank quotation about past bilateral sanctions since waived, eased or lifted, and an institution under international sanction which is Al-Qard Al-Hasan and not Syria. Chapter 10's one 'sanction' hit is a generic clause in the definition of inconvertibility, and its two 'designat' hits are ICSID Article 54(2) designations, a different sense of the word. SO NEITHER CHAPTER ASSERTS ANYTHING THE RESCISSION FALSIFIES, and the defect the audit found is silence rather than error. THE ROUTE WAS CHOSEN OVER WRITING THE FACT INTO TWO APPROVED CHAPTERS, and the reason is recorded because it is a cost and not a free choice: prose on a current legal fact is a class 2 edit in two chapters, owing two diff reviews, and three of the twelve correction passes run on 26 August wrote a false sentence, each of them a proposition added about a document. This route cannot put a false sentence in the book and it leaves the book silent on a true fact. WHAT REMAINS, AND IT IS THE ONE PLACE THE RESCISSION BEARS: 10-map-of-capital_v10.md line 221 reserves sovereign immunity to counsel and takes no position, and this row's own Known_conflict says the same question 'is not answered by either and is not answered here'. The rescission makes that reservation more live, not less, because the terrorism exception turns on designation. IT IS HELD AT SR-005 AND IT IS NOT ANSWERED BY THIS DECLINE. If SR-005 reports, both limbs reopen.
Action
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