The Defence and Strategic Goods List (DSGL) 2024 was registered on the Federal Register of Legislation on 16 August 2024 under the Customs Act 1901 and Defence Trade Controls Act 2012, repealing and replacing the DSGL 2021. It comprises the Munitions List (Part 1) and the Dual-Use List (Part 2, nine technology categories including nuclear materials, chemicals, electronics, sensors and marine and aerospace equipment) that Australia controls for export, brokering and intangible transfer. The 2024 instrument periodically realigns the list with changes agreed in the multilateral non-proliferation and export-control regimes Australia belongs to (Wassenaar Arrangement, Missile Technology Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group, Australia Group); most changes are clarifications to existing controls, with a smaller number of items entering or leaving control or having their approval requirements adjusted.

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Mechanism

The DSGL is Australia's controlled-goods list under the Customs Act 1901 (export/import permission) and the Defence Trade Controls Act 2012 (intangible supply, brokering, publication of DSGL technology). Exporting or supplying anything on the list without a permit is an offence. The list is periodically remade in full (rather than amended in place) to fold in changes agreed at Wassenaar, MTCR, NSG and the Australia Group — the DSGL 2024 instrument is one of these periodic remakes, replacing DSGL 2021 in its entirety via Schedule 1 repeal.

Downstream implications

Most Australian exporters of controlled dual-use goods (electronics,

sensors, marine/aerospace components, specialty materials) need to re-check their goods against the reissued classification, since a full-list remake can shift category numbers even where the underlying control intent is unchanged.

A small subset of items had their control status tightened or

loosened this cycle; without a primary breakdown of exactly which items moved, this filing does not assert a magnitude and should not be read as a broad tightening.

Open questions

Which specific DSGL categories/items had scope expanded or approval

requirements reduced in the 2024 remake — the explanatory statement on legislation.gov.au should itemise this; not confirmed within this tick's source budget.

Sources

Primary: Defence and Strategic Goods List 2024, F2024L01024 (Federal Register of Legislation)

Secondary: Global Trade Alert state act 90.../intervention 140053

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Mechanism

Downstream implications

Most Australian exporters of controlled dual-use goods (electronics,

A small subset of items had their control status tightened or

loosened this cycle; without a primary breakdown of exactly which items moved, this filing does not assert a magnitude and should not be read as a broad tightening.