Resources
CoCom Lists
In making or researching changes made to multilateral export control lists, it is useful to have a repository of old lists to provide an historical perspective on why the control text is structured as it is. This is such a repository for the lists of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom), a multilateral export control arrangement that ran from shortly after the end of World War II until its disbandment in 1994. CoCom never published any lists itself, but they were virtually identical to lists published by the British Government, beginning in 1954 in its Board of Trade Journal. I have therefore scanned each of these lists, which you may access below. The versions you can see are not themselves searchable (something I am trying to work out with the documents’ server, scribd) but if you download the pdf version, you can search inside of them. I note, however, that the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system I used seems to have done a haphazard job, particularly with the older Lists. If someone would like to perform a more professional job, please contact me.
CoCom was replaced by the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies in 1996. Wassenaar updates its lists at least once a year, and has provided an archive of past lists on its website.
1954 — British Government (1954), “Trade with the Soviet Bloc: Lists of Goods Controlled for Strategic Reasons”, Board of Trade Journal 167(3017), 782–789. 16 October. View PDF
1958 — British Government (1958), “Trade with the Soviet Bloc and China: Revised Lists of Goods Subject to Embargo”, Board of Trade Journal 175(3211), 314–320. 15 August. View PDF
1960 — British Government (1960), “Revised List of Goods Subject to Embargo for Soviet Bloc and China”, Board of Trade Journal 178(3281), 276–285. 5 February. View PDF
1961 — British Government (1961), “Consolidated List of Goods Subject to Embargo for Soviet Bloc and China”, Board of Trade Journal 181(3360), iii–xv. 11 August. View PDF
1962 — British Government (1962), “Consolidated List of Goods Subject to Embargo for Soviet Bloc and China”, Board of Trade Journal 183(3419), i–xiv. 28 September. View PDF
1964 — British Government (1964), “Consolidated List of Goods Subject to Embargo for Soviet Bloc and China”, Board of Trade Journal 186(3508), i–xviii. 12 June. View PDF
1966 — British Government (1966), “Consolidated list of goods subject to strategic embargo”, Board of Trade Journal 191(3622), i–xv. 19 August. View PDF
1969 — British Government (1969), “Security Export Controls”, Board of Trade Journal 197(3786), i–xvi. 8 October. View PDF
1972 — British Government (1972), “Consolidated list of goods subject to security export control”, Trade and Industry 9(2), 67–83. 12 October. View PDF
1976 — British Government (1976), “Consolidated list of goods subject to security export control”, Trade and Industry 23(5), 301–327. 30 April. View PDF
1980 — British Government (1980), “Security export control”, British Business (Supplement) 1(10), 1–28. 28 March. View PDF
1985 — British Government (1985), “Security export control”, British Business (Supplement) 17(10), 1–69. 14 June. View PDF
No scan
1987 — British Government (1987), “Security export control”, British Business (Supplement) 27(12), 1–103. 11 December. Currently unavailable.
1989 — British Government (1989), “Security export control”, British Business (Supplement) 32(9), 1–108. 3 March. View PDF
1990 – March — British Government (1990), Security export control, British Overseas Trade Board, Department of Trade and Industry, UK. March. View PDF
1991 – March — British Government (1991), Security export control, Overseas Trade Services, Department of Trade and Industry, UK. March. View PDF
1991 – September — British Government (1991a), Security export control, Department of Trade and Industry, UK. September. View PDF
1993 – List Supplement — British Government (1993a), COCOM Lists and Notes – Supplement, Department of Trade and Industry, UK. January. View PDF