15 CFR 734.4, De minimis U.S. content, Export Administration Regulations
Source ID
SRC-221
Citation
15 CFR 734.4, De minimis U.S. content, Export Administration Regulations
URL or path
research/SRC-221_15CFR734.4_de_minimis.html
Type
Primary instrument, United States regulation
Hierarchy tier
1
Accessed
2026-08-17
Snapshot
Retrieved 17 August 2026, HTTP 200
Claims
CH6 the de minimis rule and the export-control consequence of the terrorism designation
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
REGISTERED LATE, 17 August 2026, for the same reason as SRC-220. READ AT THE OPENING PARAGRAPHS. THE OPERATIVE DE MINIMIS PERCENTAGES WERE NOT LOCATED IN THE PART READ, so the chapter states the mechanism and does not state the two proportions. Reading owed on the remainder of the section, and that is a bar and not a disclosure.
CORRECTION 17 AUGUST 2026. THE OPERATIVE PARAGRAPHS WERE IN THIS FILE THE WHOLE TIME. The claim above that they 'WERE NOT LOCATED IN THE PART READ' is struck. research/SRC-221_15CFR734.4_de_minimis.html extracts to 11,342 characters and carries both under their own headings. PARAGRAPH (c), THE 10 PER CENT DE MINIMIS RULE: reexports of a foreign-made commodity incorporating controlled US-origin commodities or bundled with US-origin software valued at '10% or less of the total value of the foreign-made commodity' are not subject to the EAR 'WHEN MADE TO ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD'. PARAGRAPH (d), THE 25 PER CENT DE MINIMIS RULE: the same at '25% or less', but only 'WHEN MADE TO COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THOSE LISTED IN COUNTRY GROUP E:1 OR E:2 OF SUPPLEMENT NO. 1 TO PART 740 OF THE EAR'. SO THE OPERATIVE THRESHOLD FOR AN E:1 COUNTRY IS 10 PER CENT AGAINST 25 PER CENT FOR OTHERS, and the chapter may now print both. AND THE CHAPTER NAMED THE WRONG INSTRUMENT. The regulation does not key the lower threshold to the State Sponsor of Terrorism designation. It keys it to Country Group E:1 or E:2, and the mapping is at SRC-240. Status moves to READ for section 734.4.
AMENDED 18 AUGUST 2026 AFTER THE v7 DIFF REVIEW, WHICH FOUND THE PROSE HAD DROPPED A WORD THIS ROW ALREADY CARRIED. Both thresholds count 'CONTROLLED U.S.-origin commodities' or software or technology, not United States-origin content at large: the operative phrase at (c)(1), (c)(2), (c)(3), (d)(1), (d)(2) and (d)(3) alike is 'controlled U.S.-origin', and note (3) to each restricts the software limb to CCL-listed software controlled for anti-terrorism reasons only, or EAR99. UNCONTROLLED UNITED STATES CONTENT DOES NOT ENTER THE CALCULATION AND NO SENTENCE MAY SAY IT DOES. Both paragraphs also govern REEXPORTS specifically and both open 'except as provided in paragraph (a)', which at (a)(1) and (a)(6)(ii) removes de minimis treatment altogether for certain items destined for Syria or for Country Group E:1; that carve-out is READING OWED and no sentence rests on it.