[elliekelly]

I'm a regulatory lawyer (but I have no experience with export controls) and I can't decipher the rule either. I actually wonder how anyone is able to confidently draft and revise such a long document with so many complex cross-references:

> License Exception ACE eligibility is added for 5E001.a (for 5A001.j, 5B001.a (for 5A001.j), 5D001.a (for 5A001.j), or 5D001.c (for 5A001.j or 5B001.a (for 5A001.j)). License Exception STA conditions is revised to remove eligibility for 5E001.a (for 5A001.j, 5B001.a (for 5A001.j), 5D001.a (for 5A001.j), or 5D001.c (for 5A001.j or 5B001.a (for 5A001.j)) to destinations listed in Country Groups A:5 and A:6 (See Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR for Country Groups). License Exception TSR is revised to remove eligibility for “technology” classified under ECCN 5E001.a for 5A001.j, 5B001.a (for 5A001.j), ECCN 5D001.a (for 5A001.j), or 5D001.c (for 5A001.j or 5B001.a (for 5A001.j)).

It's like a logic puzzle.

Edit: Looking at this random paragraph again and it seems they're missing a few closing parens so maybe the answer to how they confidently draft and revise these documents is... they don't.

[dharmab]

I bet it's derived from some big excel sheet.

[mschuster91]

You wish. This kind of stuff is all too often manually managed and copy-pasted between Word documents.