1A005Body armour and components therefor, as follows:

N.B. SEE ALSO MILITARY GOODS CONTROLS.
a. Soft body armour not manufactured to military standards or specifications, or to their equivalents, and specially designed components therefor;
b. Hard body armour plates providing ballistic protection equal to or less than level IIIA (NIJ 0101.06, July 2008), or "equivalent standards".
N.B. For "fibrous or filamentary materials" used in the manufacture of body armour, see 1C010.
Note 1:
1A005 does not control body armour when accompanying its user for the user's own personal protection.
Note 2:
1A005 does not control body armour designed to provide frontal protection only from both fragment and blast from non-military explosive devices.
Note 3:
1A005 does not control body armour designed to provide protection only from knife, spike, needle or blunt trauma.