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Presidential Determination

Eligibility of South Africa To Be Furnished Defense Articles and Services Under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act

President Clinton determined that providing defense articles and services to South Africa's government would strengthen U.S. security and promote world peace, thereby restoring South Africa's eligibility under the Foreign Assistance Act and Arms Export Control Act. The Secretary of State was directed to report this finding to Congress and publish it in the Federal Register.

Federal Register 59 FR 35211
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Market exposure

Policy exposure mapping — not investment advice. Illustrative public companies are incomplete and not recommendations.

Sectors

Defense primes

Mechanisms

ProcurementLicensing

Role pressure

  • MixedDomestic producer — Restored access to South African defense market creates export opportunity, but scale likely limited given South Africa's budget constraints and existing domestic defense industry
  • ProtectiveTrading-partner exporter — South African government gains access to U.S. defense articles and services, though as importer not exporter in this arrangement

Geographies

US

Illustrative public companies

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BABoeingGDGeneral DynamicsLMTLockheed MartinNOCNorthrop GrummanRTXRTX

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Key directives

  • Find that furnishing defense articles and services to South Africa strengthens U.S. security and promotes world peace
  • Report finding to Congress
  • Publish finding in Federal Register

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Determination effective upon signing June 27, 1994
  • South Africa's eligibility for defense articles and services restored

Near term (90d)

  • Secretary of State to report finding to Congress
  • Publication in Federal Register

Long term

  • Potential U.S.-South Africa defense trade and security cooperation

Risks & tensions

  • Document does not specify whether this restores eligibility that had been restricted due to apartheid-era sanctions; timing coincides with South Africa's democratic transition (first multiracial elections held April 1994)
  • No conditions or monitoring requirements specified in the determination text
Presidential Determination: Eligibility of South Africa To Be Furnished Defense Articles and Services Under the Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act · Executive Orders