Regulations Implementing the United Nations Resolutions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)

Marginal note:Embargo — specific products

• 8 (1) It is prohibited for any person in Canada or any Canadian outside Canada to knowingly sell, supply or transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the following products, wherever situated, to the DPRK or to any person in the DPRK:

  • (a) arms and related material;

  • (b) the vehicles, aircrafts, vessels and associated transport equipment referred to in HS codes 86 to 89;

  • (c) luxury goods;

  • (d) aviation fuel including aviation gasoline, napthatype jet fuel, kerosene-type jet fuel and kerosene-type rocket fuel, except for aviation fuel provided to a DPRK passenger aircraft for its return flight to the DPRK;

  • (e) crude oil and refined petroleum products;

  • (f) condensates and natural gas liquids;

  • (g) the base metals and articles of base metal referred to in HS codes 72 to 83;

  • (h) the machinery, mechanical appliances and electrical equipment referred to in HS codes 84 and 85.

• Marginal note:DPRK’s weapons programme

  (2) It is prohibited for any person in Canada or any Canadian outside Canada to knowingly sell, supply or transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the following products, wherever situated, that are destined for the DPRK or for any person in the DPRK:

  • (a) those that are listed in Information Circular INFCIRC/ 254/Rev.12/Part 1, entitled Communication Received from the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding Certain Member States’ Guidelines for the Export of Nuclear Material, Equipment and Technology;

  • (b) those that are listed in Information Circular INFCIRC/ 254/Rev.9/Part 2, entitled Communication Received from the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding Certain Member States’ Guidelines for Transfers of Nuclear-related Dual-use Equipment, Materials, Software and Related Technology;

  • (c) those that appear on the lists set out in the Security Council documents S/2014/253, S/2016/308, S/2016/1069, S/2017/728, S/2017/760, S/ 2017/822 and S/2017/829;

  • (d) those that have been identified under paragraph 8 of Security Council Resolution 1718 by the Committee of the Security Council or by the Security Council;

  • (e) those that appear in Annex III of Security Council Resolution 2321.

• Marginal note:Support of military activities

  (3) It is prohibited for any person in Canada or any Canadian outside Canada to knowingly provide to the DPRK, to any person in the DPRK, or to any person acting on behalf of the DPRK, any products other than food or medicine that could be used to support military activities.

• Marginal note:Technical assistance

  (4) It is prohibited for any person in Canada or any Canadian outside Canada to knowingly provide to the DPRK, to any person in the DPRK, or to any person acting on behalf of the DPRK, technical assistance related to the sale, supply, transfer, manufacture, use or maintenance of any of the products referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or subsection (2).

• Marginal note:Training to nationals

  (5) It is prohibited for any person in Canada or any Canadian outside Canada to knowingly provide to any national teaching or training in disciplines which could contribute to the proliferation of nuclear activities or the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems in the DPRK, including in advanced studies of physics, materials science, computer simulation and related computer sciences and geospatial navigation, and in nuclear, chemical, mechanical, electrical, industrial, aerospace and aeronautical engineering and related disciplines.