MEMORANDUM BY THE UNITED STATES DELEGATION CONCERNING UNITED STATES PROPOSAL TO EXPORT TEFLON INSULATING TAPE TO POLAND

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP62-00647A000100190006-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 20, 1959
• Content Type: MEMO

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April 20, 1959
MEMORANDUM BY
THE UNITED STATES DELEGATION
Concerning
UNITED STATES PROPOSAL TO EXPORT
'T'EFLON INSULATING TAPE TO POI,.,'.-,.)
References: COCOM Documents 3402, 3407, 3431, 3449 and 3461
1. The Committee will recall that on February 25, 1959, the
United States Delegate submitted a document (numbered 3431) stating
that the technical name for Teflon is tetrafluoroethylene. On
March 9, the Delegate of France stated in the Committee that the
correct name for Teflon in the form of insulating tape is
polytetrafluoroethylene.
2. The United States Delegation has been informed by its
authorities that Teflon is a trade mark name owned by E. I. du Pont de
Nemours and Company. The du Pont Company chooses to identify as
"Teflon" a tetrafluoroethylene resin or tetrafluoroethylene fiber,
etc. depending on the product form. Accepted practice in describing
resins has been to use the names polyethylene or polyt.otrafluoroethylene
although it is understood that the product Teflon by arbitrary definition
is tetrafluoroethylene resin. The United States has no objection to the
use of "polytetrafluoroethylene" or "tetrafluoroethylene resin" in
describing the strategic resin formed by the polymerization of the
chemical tetrafluoroethylene.
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