> In article <199811260313.LAA09708@typhaon.ucs.uwa.edu.au>,
> David Luyer <luyer@ucs.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> > A third point is that arms are exportable if fired in a rocket over the
> > border AFAIK.
>
> There is a clause in the U.S. export regs that says that rocket launches
> don't count as export. This basically covers communications satellites
> which use a lot of otherwise restricted aerospace technology.
>
> Some folks in the bay area actually thought of making a road trip down
> to San Diego with a bunch of DAT tapes and some of the larger Estes
> offerings, but they asked a lawyer first.
>
> It's export when it touches down. Thge exepmption is for things going
> up and staying there.
>
> It probably *is* legal if you launch it into orbit, sell it there,
> and the buyer deorbits it. But that's an infeasibly high
> cost barrier for the moment.
Then you could do it with your DAT tapes in San Diego, except you'd
have to do the transaction quickly - something like a contract that
the buyer owns it once it crosses the airspace of the border.
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