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Under Article 13 of Taiwan's Foreign Trade Act, MOEA-ITA periodically updates the Strategic High-Tech Commodities (SHTC) control lists to track changes agreed at the Wassenaar Arrangement plenary and other multilateral export-control regimes. This amendment cycle runs in parallel with — but is distinct from — the 18 November 2025 SHTC controlled-goods expansion already on the register (quantum computers, 3D-printing equipment, advanced semiconductor equipment): that action covers frontier dual-use technology categories, while this one covers more conventional dual-use/military categories — basic inorganic chemicals, chemical products, and engines and turbines (Wassenaar Munitions-List-adjacent items such as gas-turbine and aero-engine components, and CWC/Australia-Group-adjacent precursor and process chemicals).
The pre-notice (17 November 2025) opened a standard 60-day public-comment window; MOEA-ITA published the finalised list amendment on 11 February 2026, effective the same day. Exporters of goods newly captured by either list must obtain MOEA-ITA export licences before shipment, irrespective of destination country — a commodity-based control layer rather than a country- or entity-based one.
face a new pre-export licensing step for goods newly captured by the SHTC dual-use and general-military lists.
expansion and the 10 June 2025 entity-list action) of routinely tracking Wassenaar Arrangement and allied export-control updates rather than maintaining a static national list.
disclosed in the announcement text retrieved; the finalised annex (hosted on the MOEA-ITA SHTC portal) would confirm scope precisely.
transitional arrangements was not stated in the sources reviewed.