Enhanced Favorable Treatment for the United Arab Emirates Under the Export Administration Regulations

What it does

In this final rule, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to provide enhanced favorable treatment for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Specifically, BIS is removing the UAE from Country Groups D:3 and D:4 and adding the UAE to Country Group A:5. More license exceptions will now be available, including Strategic Trade Authorization (STA) for the UAE Government and approved commercial entities in the UAE. STA will authorize the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) of military items; certain commercial satellites and spacecraft; and dual-use items useful in, inter alia, oil and gas production, desalination, and civil nuclear power generation. The UAE Government and approved commercial entities will also have license-free access to advanced computing items, consistent with the May 2025 U.S.-UAE Artificial Intelligence Cooperation framework, without compromising U.S. digital infrastructure buildout.

The Industry and Security Bureau's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

3 parts of Title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

15 CFR 740, 15 CFR 742, 15 CFR 774

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Industry and Security Bureau has published 12 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 22 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0694-AK54 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This rule is effective July 10, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket BIS-2026-0398 on Regulations.gov
• Title 15 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register