Canada's export-control, investment-screening and research-security lists: what each counts and when it last changed, set beside Japan, Korea, Australia and the EU.
Canada's lists and screening
Export controls
Export Control List: the Guide in force
Latest: A Guide to Canada's Export Control List, January 2026 version (in force 1 May 2026) (1 May 2026)
Finalized 31 Mar 2026; reflects multilateral-regime commitments up to 1 Jan 2026. The May 2025 version applied until 30 Apr 2026. The Export Control List regulations (SOR/89-202) were last amended 22 Jun 2026 by SOR/2026-151, a miscellaneous (housekeeping) amendment.
Export Control List: Canada's own Group 5 controls (item 5506)
Latest: SOR/2025-89, seven more categories in item 5506 (25 Apr 2025)
5Controls added in item 5506 (quantum computers, cryo-CMOS, GAAFET technology, dry etch, advanced SEM); 21 numbered entries(SOR/2024-112, in force 19-20 Jul 2024)
7Categories added in item 5506 (isotopically enriched Si/Ge, cryogenic cooling, cryogenic wafer probers, parametric amplifiers, EUV masks and pellicles, metal additive manufacturing, high-temperature coatings)(SOR/2025-89, in force 25 Apr 2025)
6Categories proposed (lithography, epitaxial deposition, deposition equipment, FPLD boards, advanced computing chips, additive-manufacturing powders); not in force(Canada Gazette Part I, 25 Apr 2026)
Item 5506 controls are for all destinations except the United States. The April 2026 proposal was not in force in the consolidation current to 30 Sep 2026 (last amendment SOR/2026-151 is housekeeping). The count of numbered entries in SOR/2025-89 reads 12 or 13 depending on how the new paragraph (e) is counted, so only the seven categories are shown.
Latest: Annual report 2024-25 (fiscal year to 31 Mar 2025) (16 Feb 2026)
National-security reviews by fiscal year (April to March)
Step
FY2020-21
FY2021-22
FY2022-23
FY2023-24
FY2024-25
Notices (review continued)
23
24
32
26
30
Orders for a full review
11
12
22
15
16
Final orders (block or divest)
3
0
3
2
1
Investor withdrew
–
–
9
9
9
Concluded on undertakings
–
–
–
–
6
– not given for that year in the table we read.
Notices (review continued)
Orders for a full review
Final orders (block or divest)
All filings under the Act (notifications and applications for review): 1,138 in FY2024-25.
Five-year total 2020-21 to 2024-25: 135 notices, 76 s.25.3 orders, 9 final orders (8 divest or wind up, 1 block). 2019-20 (from the 2023-24 report): 10 notices, 7 orders, 3 final orders. The 2025-26 report is not yet published.
Latest: STRA list under the Policy on Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern (16 Jan 2024)
11Top-level research areas(since 16 Jan 2024)
74Sub-categories (our count of listed items)(page as read 1 Nov 2026)
Published 16 Jan 2024 with the policy. 2026-10-06 is the page's 'date modified'; the page gives no revision note, so a change to the list itself is not confirmed. The sub-category count is ours and could differ by a few depending on grouping.
First published 16 Jan 2024. 18 Apr 2024 is the page's 'date modified'; the list is unchanged since then although the page says it 'will be updated regularly'. Counts only; no names shown.
Sensitive Technology List (investment and economic security)
Latest: Canada's Sensitive Technology List (6 Feb 2025)
11Broad technology areas(since 6 Feb 2025)
Separate from the STRA list; the ICA national-security guidelines (updated 5 Mar 2025) refer to it in place of the earlier sensitive-technology annex. No later revision found.
No list change found in 2025-26; NRCan still cites 34 minerals in March 2026. A consultation on an updated Critical Minerals Strategy closed 14 Aug 2026 (the strategy, not explicitly the list).
The latest edition of each list with its date, and the investment-screening counts for the latest period published. "Not published" means we found no official count.
Lists and screening, as published
Jurisdiction
Latest list editions
Screening counts (latest period)
Canada
Export Control List: the Guide in force(1 May 2026)
Counts and dates only, as the official sources publish them; no person, organisation or firm is named. "Last changed" is the date of the latest change we found in the source; where only the web page's own date is known, the card says "Page last modified". Each figure carries a confidence mark: high where we read the official text, medium or low where we relied on a mirror, a summary or our own count, as the card notes. Each source link says which language it is in.