COORDINATING COMMITTEE RECORD OF DISCUSSION ON ITEM 1635 - ALLOYS 9TH JUNE, 1960

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20thIune9 1960
COORDINATING COMMITTEE
RECORD OF DISCUSSION
ON
ITEM 1- ALLOYS
9th June. 1960
COCOMDocument No.-..3716.35/6 B
Present: Belgium (Luxembo9.irg), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy,
Japan, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.
References: COCOM Documents 3716.35/2 to 5 and VP .P. 1635/2.
1. The CHAIR1l,I0 recalled that when the Committee had been approving
the draft if the record of the last meeting devoted to this item (COCOM
Document 3716.35/5) the Garman Delegate had expressed doubt as to whether
the wording sot out in paragraph 11 of that document would exclude from
embargo glass to metal scaling alloys containing several of the non-ferrous
products referred to. In ordo:c to answer the question put by the German
Delegation, and in an endeavour to speed up the solution of the problem
which the French Delegation had laid before the Committee, the Chairman
proposed tho following wording:
"Glass to metal. scalir; alloys or sealing alloy stools containing
one or more of the following non-ferrous elements: cobalt,
chromium or nickel, in percentages not exceeding 20, 30 and 50%
respectively, arc excepted from embargo coverago under Item 1635.11
He invited Delegates to state their views on this wording.
2. The FRENCH Delegate stated that, in point of fact, in order to reply
to the German Dologatdts remarks, his own Delegation had contemplated the
submission of a formula very close to the wording just suggested by the
Chairman; he could therefore accept this proposal.
3. The UNITED STATES Delegate stated that, while agreement in principle
seemed to have been reached on the French Delegationts objective, which was
the exclusion from embargo of glass to metal sealing alloys or alloy stools,
nevertheless there remained certain divergencies between the views of the
United States and French experts as to the composition of these alloys. The
United States experts considered that glass to metal sealing alloys
contained no chromium and only contained nickel in a proportion not
exceeding 29%. The Delegate pointed out moreover that an alloy containing
50% or more nickel would fall under Item 1661 and not Item 1635. As a
matter of fact, as far as was known to the United States experts who had
been consulted, there only existed four types of glass to metal sealing
alloys, each containing 17% of cobalt and 29% of nickel, the remainder
being made up either of iron or of iron and a small manganese content of
up to 1%. In order to solve the problem of excluding glass to metal
sealing alloys, the United States Delegation proposed the following
wording, which they considered to have the advantage of simplicity.
"Glass to metal sealing alloys or alloy steels containing 20% or
loss cobalt are excepted from embargo coverage under Item 1635."
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4. . The UNITED KINGDOM Delegate stated that United Kingdom technicians
had knowledge of a glass to metal sealing alloy of United States manufacture
which contained chromium. There also existed a glass to metal sealing alloy
of United Kingdom-manufacture which contained 17% of cobalt and 297 of
nickel, which corresponded to the make-up referred to by the United States
Delegate: The Delegate stated that his authorities had instructed him to
submit an exclusion formula, but since it might take a little time to agree
on a form of words, he wished the French authorities to know that the
United Kingdom Delegation would raise no objection to the export of glass
to metal sealing alloys of the Kovar type. Referring to the last paragraph
of COCOM Document 3716.35/5, the Delegate proposed that Item 1635 should
be studied prior to the next List Review, for the purely technical questions
to which it gave riso could doubtless, with adequate preparation, be settled
rapidly.
5. The BELGIAN Delegate stated that the wording proposed by the Chairman
seemed excellent, but, as he had not received instructions as to the
principle of a Noto, ho could only give an ad referendum agreement.
6. The NETHERLANDS Delegate said that he had received instructions to
join the majority.
7. The FRENCH Delegate st-,ted that he would be able to accept either the
Chairman's wordint or that of the United States, both of which achieved his
Delegation's objective. The Delegate then cited a number of alloys
containing iron, nickel and :ium, or iron, nickel and cobalt, or iron,
nickel, chromium and cobalt, and recalled in conclusion that the Kovar
alloy which was the F:ro.ch Dot ation's main preoccupation at the moment
contained cobalt, nickel and iron. The French Delegation wore therefore
prepared to accept the United State; Delegation's proposal, provided that
at a later date discu;-.sjon ware resumed in order to se sk a formula which
would clearly exclude all non -strat.;t:ic glass to metal sealing alloys.
8. The UNITED KING!%DM Dc'_ogate stated that all the texts proposed so
far would involve difficulties for his authorities if they had to include
them in the Export Control Order. The United Kingdom Delegation would not,
however, raise any difficulti-es for any export of Kovar from France.
9. The GERMAN Delegate stated that, as he had --lot yet received instructions
from his Government, he was not in a position to accept any exclusion formula.
For this reason, and associating himself with hi,-, United Kingdom colleague,
he suggested that if the French authorities had received export applications
for which they wished to issue licences, it would be useful if they could
be submitted to the Committee, who would not fail to deal with them rapidly.
10. The FRENCH Delegate thanked his United Kingdom and German colleagues
for recalling the resources provided by the exceptions procedure. He stated
however that, having ce;.ie so close to a constructive solution accepted
unanimously in principle at all events,t would be regrettable if the Committee
should return to the statu cue ante because they could not succeed in
establishing an accepta;Lle form of words.
11. The UNITED KINGDOM Delegate stated that the United Kingdom authorities
were as anxious as any other Member Government to find a suitable form of
words covering glass to metal sealing alloys. He then read out the different
exclusion wordings proposed by the United Kingdom authorities:
Note to Item 1635:
"Glass to metal sealing alloys containing cobalt and chromium or
nickel in percentages not exceeding 20, 30 and 44% respectively,
are excepted from embargo coverage under Item 1635."
Corollary Note to Item 1661(b):
"Glass to metal sealing alloys containing up to 50% nickel are
excluded from embargo coverage under Item 1661."
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The United Kingdom authorities would however prefer this exclusion to take
the form of a sub.paragraph (iii) to be added to Item 1635(a)(2) accompanied
by the addition to Item 1661(b) of a sub-paragraph (v), as shown below:
1635(a)(2)(iii);
"Glass to metal sealing alloys containing cobalt and chromium
or nickel in percentages not exceeding 20, 30 and 44% respectively."
1661(b) v :
"Glass to metal sealing alloys containing up to 50% nickel."
12. The FRENCH Delegate stated that he could also accept the United
Kingdom proposal. In reply to a question from the United States Delegate,
he confirmed the existence of a glass to metal sealing alloy containing
more than 29% of nickel: this was the ASV alloy, which contained about
42% of nickel and from 4 to 6% of chromium.
13. After a further exchengo of views, the COMMITTEE agreed to refer to
Member Governments the th,,?ee latest proposals, which had been grouped together
in Working Paper 1635/2 so as to enable the competent departments to examine
them without delay. The Committee agreed to hear Member Governments' views on
these three proposals on the 20th June.
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