United State Government has removed the following DRDO laboratories from the US Entity List of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR):-
(i) Armament Research & Development Establishment (ARDE);
(ii) Solid State Physics Laboratory (SSPL);
(iii) Research Centre Imarat (RCI); and
(iv) Defence Research & Development Laboratory (DRDL).
It is expected that recent removal of DRDO laboratories from the Entity List to work to DRDO's advantage in acquiring high technology in pace with the technology advancement subjected to lesser trade restrictions.
This information was given by Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a reply to Shrimati Supriya Sule in Lok Sabha today.
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