U.S. Department of State

DTrade Information Center

DTrade is a fully-electronic defense export licensing system. DDTC is prepared to receive and adjudicate defense export authorization requests properly submitted by any U.S. person who is a defense trade registrant and wishes to permanently export unclassified defense articles via the Form DSP-5, temporarily import unclassified defense articles via the Form DSP-61, or temporarily export unclassified defense articles via the Form DSP-73. Based on envisioned expansion of electronic processing capabilities, DDTC anticipates, with few exceptions, most export licensing submissions via DTrade in the near future.

	Industry Notice: DDTC is in the process of renewing DTRADE forms with the expiration date of November 30, 2011. The forms currently in use will remain valid until we receive notification from OMB of the revised expiration date. (11.29.11)
	Industry Notice: Pursuant to the note on 11.06.2011 DDTC has updated its master country names and country codes. The new forms and systems will be deployed during a maintenance window between 8AM Sunday, 11.20.2011 and 8AM Monday 11.21.2011 ET. During this maintenance window the PMDDTC website, DTrade and other systems will be unavailable and no forms can be submitted electronically. (11.17.11)
	Digital Certificate: If you have an IdenTrust digital certificate and experienced a failure in digitally signing DSP forms or logging on to DTrade on or after 09/14/2011 please Click here.
	Windows 7 Users Note: You must use Lotus Forms Viewer in order to digitally sign DSP applications for submission. See the link on this page to download this viewer under the heading DTrade Form Viewer.
	Agreements: Effective September 1, 2010 DDTC-Licensing will no longer accept unclassified paper submissions of Technical Assistance Agreements, Manufacturing License Agreements, and Warehouse Distribution Agreements (to include major amendments). After this date all submissions must be made electronically via DTrade 2 utilizing the DSP-5 form. For information on submitting agreements electronically please reference the "Guidelines for Preparing Electronic Agreements" located on this website.

DTrade Updates:

1. Release Notes: Country Codes update. (11.21.11)
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2. Release Notes: DTrade2 v2.3.4.1. (4.27.11)
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3. Release Notes: DTrade2 v2.3.2. (7.19.10)
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4. Industry Notice: IBM Lotus Forms Viewer (5.08.10)
   Please click here to read. (PDF, 331KB)
5. Release Notes: DTrade2 v2.3.1 (5.08.10)
   Please click here to read. (PDF, 201KB)
6. Release Notes: DTrade2 v2.3 (4.18.10)
   Please click here to read. (PDF, 326KB)
7. Web Notice: Full version of MARY Status Retrieval System going live. (3.05.10)
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8. Web Notice: DTrade2 Document Upload Instructions for Licenses, Addition. (2.02.10)
   Click here to read. (PDF, 207KB)
9. Release Notes: DTrade2 v2.2 (10.26.09)
   Please click here to read. (PDF, 26KB)
10. Industry Notice: New Version 3.1 DSP-61 PureEdge Form (10.20.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 156KB)
11. DSP119 forms may now only be used to amend DSP85 licenses. To amend a DSP-5, DSP-61 or DSP-73 license, the applicant must submit the companion amendment form via DTRADE-2. (9.25.09)
12. DTrade 2 v2.1 has been implemented. Primarily v2.1 supports functionality for submission of agreements. (7.02.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 22KB)
13. Release Notes: DTrade2 v2.1 (7.01.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 259KB)
14. Web Notice: Beginning on May 16, 2009, the DTrade 2 application must be used to submit all new license submissions. Do not submit new applications via DTrade 1. Any new submissions to DTrade1 will be Returned Without Action (RWA), directing the applicant to submit via the DTrade2 application. (5.14.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 24KB)
15. Addendum to Release Notes in support of Defense Trade Web Application 2 Version 2.0 (5.11.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 64KB)
16. Web Update for DTrade Customers (4.30.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 220KB)
17. Please submit ALL NEW CASES to DTrade2.
    For all existing licenses log into DTrade1 to track status, upload additional documentation and download licenses. (4.15.09)
18. Effective April 16, 2009 with the implementation of DTrade 2, all DTrade users must use their DDTC-approved registrant/applicant name which corresponds to their DDTC registration record before an application or amendment will be accepted by the DTrade system. (4.06.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 10KB)
19. Web Notice: DDTC will be introducing its improved internal case management system on 16 April 2009. (4.03.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 15KB)
20. Release Notes - PureEdge Import and Export Forms in support of Defense Trade Web Application 2 Version 2.0 (4.03.09)
    Please click here to read. (PDF, 259KB)
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