European countries are looking for alternate sources for weapons because they are concerned about the misuse of ITAR regulations by the United States.
The use of American subsystems has always been complex for European defense contractors, since it gives Washington a veto over potential exports, and even before Trump, these limits were frequently applied more for industrial protection rather than security concerns.
Today, there is absolutely no trust remaining.
US firms seeking to tap into ballooning European defense budgets are finding a new roadblock emerging: a desire by European capitals to avoid US control of weapon sales.
There have long been concerns about how American International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) restrict foreign governments’ ability to sell or transfer domestically built weapons that contain components originating in the US. And that concern is becoming harder to ignore as skepticism surrounding US and European relations has led to a serious push on the continent to move away from buying weapons with US-controlled parts, according to a half-dozen people who talked to Breaking Defense.………
In its simplest terms, ITAR is a set of US government rules to regulate the export and import of defense and military items on the United States Munitions List (USML), including services and technical data.
Scott Wise, a partner at Crowell & Moring and a member of the law firm’s international trade group, said the bulk of foreign governments’ concerns on ITAR is the “see-through rule.” That rule, he told Breaking Defense, means ITAR regulators track the US-made components inside a foreign-built weapon system and control where those parts go and what they’re used for.
Consequences.
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