The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) publishes every year the list of products that requires export licenses (with prior consent from the government before being authorized to export). The MDIC checks with a dozen of public bodies that have competence to issue such kind of legislation for a certain group of products and publishes that in the middle of the year. However, that does not mean that the measure took effect on the date of its publication. It is in force at least from the beginning of the same year. Therefore, if the list is published in May 2009, this means that the MDIC finish consultations with other public bodies to compile export-licensing requirements for the whole year of 2009. The list for this licensing requirement was published on 08-Jan-2013. The general legislation issued by MDIC (Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade)does not change much practices before 2011. It only put in one piece of legislation rules established in different legal diplomas. SECEX Resolution 23/2011 Article 266 enlists all legal diploma that had been repelled. Ministerial Act of 2011 captures more accurately all the rules implied in 2009 and 2010, although the resolution was i