In September 2000 the Department of State extended an offer to foreign governments to provide blanket end-use, retransfer, and security assurances applicable to the receipt of third party transfers of defense articles, related training, or other defense services originally sold or granted by the United States Government. To date 27 countries and organizations have signed onto the program.
Blanket assurances apply only to the recipient of government-to-government third party transfers of U.S.-sold or granted defense articles, related training, or other defense services (including technical data). Agreeing to these assurances does not constitute blanket U.S. Government consent to any proposed retransfer. The United States Government must still approve retransfer requests from countries with blanket end-use agreements. These assurances do not apply with respect to defense articles, related training, or other defense services (including technical data) exported from the United States via direct commercial sales (DCS).
Blanket assurances signatories:
