Programs > DCS > Colombia
last updated:9/26/03

Direct Commercial Sales (DCS): Colombia

Data about DCS licenses do not necessarily refer to final sales; they indicate only that the State Department has granted permission for a possible sale. The State Department estimates that about half of all export licenses it grants result in actual deliveries.1  

Table 1: 2000-2002

Commodity  2000  2001  2002  2003
Quantity  Lic. Value  Quantity  Lic. Value  Quantity  Lic. Value  Quantity  Lic. Value 
Agreements, mfg. and tech. assistance            
Aircraft attack A-37 spare parts   72,403    18,604,491    165,056 
75,109
Aircraft cargo C-130 spare parts   7,087,474    20,000,000    2,581 
500,000
Aircraft ground support equipment    1,048    5,000,000     
Aircraft spare parts miscellaneous   5,819,976    608,053    12,432,503 
4,546,168
Aircraft Stol OV10A spare parts            
Aircraft trainer T-34 spare parts  600,000  15,951        87,674 
Aircraft trainer T-37 spare parts       208,204    4,279 
Aircraft, unclassifiable            
Ammunition manufacturing equipment       170,980     
Ammunition raw materials   327,043    114,021    621,679 
148,762
Antennas (radio and communications types)       158,635     
Armor plate   43,000    225,998    58,360 
Armored vests (personnel)            
Artillery guns all sizes & howitzers         281,200  181,093 
Artillery fuzes            
Automated teller machines / components            
31,694
Auxiliary military equip. and spare parts            
Batteries (all types)         978  24,509 
Battery chargers (all models)            
Binoculars         43  140,400 
Bomb detection equipment           43,200 
522,376
Bombs practice            
Breathing equip (gas masks etc)       196,402     
Carbine (all types)            
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal 0  12,000  19,801  922,826  1,470,000  39,424 
190,200
212,175
Cartridges tracer            
Chemical agent dispensing equipment           465,750 
Chemical agents and herbicides   308,910    117,371    32,957 
Communications equipment & component  12  130,975        200,000 
523,020
Crypto equip. components and spare parts            
Crypto machines            
Direction finders (all models)            
Electronic equip (misc.)  0  153,220        10,000 
Electronics components & spare parts  2  266,125    17,920    1,185,377 
11,496,287
Engine diesel (all models)  0  466,962  20  447,995  33  565,890 
Engine spare parts & components misc            1,508,080 
Engine jet J-79 spare parts   12,500         
Engine jet T-53 series  19  300,000         
250,000
Engine jet T-56 spare parts 5  1,000,000         
Engine jet T-56 spare parts             
Explosives       176,500     
128,640
Fire Control System Parts & Components            
2,490
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) parts           100,000 
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) systems         3  2,161,570 
Generators         37  129,000 
Grenade launcher (all models)       127,486     
33
52,437
Grenades hand and weapon types            
Gun, aircraft, .50 cal / 40mm            
Gun, machine, M2 series 50 cal       147,686     
Helicopter S-70A series           25,000 
Helicopter spare parts, miscellaneous       33,235     
Helicopter supp equip spare parts 16  5,280,200    11,241,000    5,000,000 
235,325
Helmets pilot (all models) 0  17,271  40  27,300  40  39,920 
Helmets protective (all models) 0  4,060  112  100,806  8  9,269 
Image intensifiers 0  45,999  130  919,606  92  1,212,741 
18
54,259
Interrogator set spares and components            
Laser components & spare parts    281,600        47,003 
Lasers (all models)            
Machine gun (all types)     39  463,298  372  4,998,954 
18
656,100
Machine gun spares       307,835    188,941 
771,268
Missile launchers (excluding tow)     4  6,607     
Missile launcher spare parts and sup. equip.            
Missile spare parts (non specific type)       260,000     
Mortar ammunition (all sizes)       1,447,610     
Night vision goggles 15  2,914,483    404,747    2,573,610 
6,337,172
Night vision scopes (crew serve weapons)            
Night vision scopes (hand held)            
Night vision scopes spares & components  10  771,391    1,039,793    7,918,722 
4,258,292
Night vision, AN/PVS-7A/B goggles 3  30,800         
Parachutes (cargo)  0  55,409         
Parachutes (personnel)  0  29,500         
Patrol Boat      3  1,395,000  35  9,680,000 
20
2,600,000
Pistols & revolvers  0  2,267  50  28,081  366  281,963 
62
284,579
Pistols & revolvers spare parts  0  311,122    137,222    1,653,494 
461,937
Propellants       52,800    1,927,771 
632,080
Protective equip (suits, gloves, etc.)           234,764 
Protective equip component parts 2  1,080    83,225    121,209 
Pyrotechnics            
Pyrotechnics   34,980         
Radar systems (airborne models)            
Radar systems components and spare parts            
15,000,000
Radio set (components and set)       18,000     
5,371
Receiver sets (all models)         1  81,045 
Receiver / transmitters (all models)            
Rifle (non-military, all types) 0  1,775  28  74,801  115  406,875 
283
1,690,724
Rifle M-16 (all models)         46  61,916 
Rifle M-16 spare parts and components            
Riot control chemicals (anti-pers)       17,244     
255,956
Riot control equipment (police type eq)           9,930 
Rocket launcher (all models)     20  279,678  15  325,000 
10
219,771
Rocket launcher components & spare           15,900 
Ship components and spare parts            
Shotgun (all types)            
Small arms spare parts (rifle and carbine)            
218,190
Speech and voice scramblers            
Submachine guns   1,400         
Tank components and spare parts            
Technical data cat IV               20
Technical data cat IX    20         
Technical data cat V            1,000 
1,000
Technical data cat VI            
Technical data cat VIII       100    6,850,789 
10,785
Technical data cat. XI       150    20 
Technical Data Misc            
1,500
Telephone equipment (all models)       137,828    23,123 
Training equipment (all types)           441,687 
2,980,000
Training Equipment (Various Types)            
Training Equip Components & Spare Parts            
404,807
transmitters (all models)            
94,386
Transponders     36  544,497     
Trucks military (all models)            
Vehicle, AAV7A1/AAVAI assault amphibious            
Vehicle Military Components & Spares            
199,736
Vehicles military (miscellaneous types)           2,257,120 
650,027
Weapons spare parts and components           25,000 
Total   25,800,944    66,265,031    66,572,148 
56,512,443



Table 2: 1996-1999


Commodity  1996  1997  1998  1999 
    Quantity  Lic. Value  Quantity  Lic. Value  Quantity  Lic. Value 
Agreements, mfg. and tech. assistance 2  15,000,000  1  7,427,200    8,400,000     
Aircraft attack A-37 spare parts   12,500    119,050    85,340    485,950 
Aircraft cargo C-130 spare parts       1,500,000    3,004,920     
Aircraft ground support equipment  0               
Aircraft spare parts miscellaneous   42,244    285,180    2,838,837    10,483,592 
Aircraft Stol OV10A spare parts   1,000,000        69,416    54,530 
Aircraft trainer T-34 spare parts                 
Aircraft trainer T-37 spare parts       21,221         
Aircraft, unclassifiable             2  3,347,670 
Ammunition manufacturing equipment                
Ammunition raw materials   683,389    915,073    1,079,853    2,489,864 
Antennas (radio and communications types)         21  219,494     
Armor plate   631,038    1,735,366        53,134 
Armored vests (personnel)             50  55,000 
Artillery guns all sizes & howitzers                
Artillery fuzes           360     
Automated teller machines / components   116,905             
Auxiliary military equip. and spare parts       200         
Batteries (all types)                
Battery chargers (all models) 1  8,500             
Binoculars                
Bomb detection equipment                
Bombs practice           132,679     
Breathing equip (gas masks etc)                
Carbine (all types)         20  14,580     
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal 533,880  798,535  1,210,000  54,928  440,000  14,690     
Cartridges tracer         1,187,000  462,930     
Chemical agent dispensing equipment       106,000        274140
Chemical agents and herbicides   61,452    303,171    3,644,482    532,669 
Communications equipment & component    300,000        292,146     
Crypto equip. components and spare parts   191,747             
Crypto machines 64  3,469,661    89,913         
Direction finders (all models)         1  1,740,000     
Electronic equip (misc.)    300,168             
Electronics components & spare parts    312,537    7,558    584,034    593,504 
Engine diesel (all models)                 
Engine spare parts & components misc                 
Engine jet J-79 spare parts   3,488    44,630    500,000     
Engine jet T-53 series                81,900 
Engine jet T-56 spare parts   11,086             
Engine jet T-56 spare parts                 
Explosives           454,000     
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) parts   39,530    632,000    15,000    100,000 
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) systems             1  1,091,925 
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