# 外国為替及び外国貿易法 / Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — 第五十五条の十 (Article 55-10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 外国為替及び外国貿易法 (Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act), 昭和二十四年法律第二百二十八号 - English title "Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第五十五条の十 (Article 55-10)（輸出者等遵守基準） — address `art-55-10` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第五十五条の十（輸出者等遵守基準） — (Compliance Standards for Exporters and Persons Conducting Similar Transactions) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-55-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10 **第一項** 経済産業大臣は、経済産業省令で、第二十五条第一項に規定する取引又は第四十八条第一項に規定する輸出（以下「輸出等」という。）を業として行う者（以下「輸出者等」という。）が輸出等を行うに当たつて遵守すべき基準（以下「輸出者等遵守基準」という。）を定めなければならない。 art-55-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10/par-1 In the form of an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must establish standards with which a person conducting the transaction prescribed in Article 25, paragraph (1) or the export prescribed in Article 48, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as the "exporting goods or conducting similar transactions") in the course of trade (such a person is hereinafter referred to as an "exporter or person conducting similar transactions") is to comply when exporting goods or conducting similar transactions (hereinafter referred to as the "compliance standards for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions"). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the form of an Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry must establish standards with which a person conducting the transaction prescribed in Article 25, paragraph (1) or the export prescribed in Article 48, paragraph (1) (hereinafter referred to as the "exporting goods or conducting similar transactions") in the course of trade (such a person is hereinafter referred to as an "exporter or person conducting similar transactions") is to comply when exporting goods or conducting similar transactions (hereinafter referred to as the "compliance standards for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions")." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb **第二項** 輸出者等遵守基準は、第二十五条第一項に規定する取引によつて提供しようとする特定技術又は第四十八条第一項の特定の地域を仕向地として輸出をしようとする同項の特定の種類の貨物が特定重要貨物等に該当するかどうかの確認に関する事項その他当該取引又は輸出を行うに当たつて遵守すべき事項について定めるものとする。 art-55-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10/par-2 The compliance standards for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions must set forth the particulars for confirming whether specified technology that a person seeks to provide through a transaction as prescribed in Article 25, paragraph (1) or a specified type of goods as prescribed in Article 48, paragraph (1) that a person seeks to export to a specified region as prescribed in that paragraph constitutes specified important goods or technology, and anything else with which a person must comply in conducting such a transaction or in undertaking such an export. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The compliance standards for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions must set forth the particulars for confirming whether specified technology that a person seeks to provide through a transaction as prescribed in Article 25, paragraph (1) or a specific kind of goods as prescribed in Article 48, paragraph (1) that a person seeks to export to a specified region as prescribed in that paragraph constitutes specified important goods or technology, and anything else with which a person must comply in conducting such a transaction or in undertaking such an export." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb **第三項** 前項の「特定重要貨物等」とは、特定技術又は第四十八条第一項の特定の種類の貨物であつて、その特定国における提供若しくは特定国の非居住者への提供又はその同項の特定の地域を仕向地とする輸出が国際的な平和及び安全の維持を特に妨げることとなると認められるものとして経済産業省令で定めるものをいう。 art-55-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10/par-3 The term "specified important goods or technology" referred to in the preceding paragraph means a specified technology or a specified type of goods referred to in Article 48, paragraph (1), which is prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as one whose provision in a specified country or to the non-resident of a specified country or whose export to a specified region as prescribed in that paragraph it is found would particularly compromise international peace and international security. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The term "specified important goods or technology" referred to in the preceding paragraph means a specified technology or a specified type of goods referred to in Article 48, paragraph (1), which is prescribed by Order of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as one whose provision in a specified country or to the non-resident of a specified country or whose export to a specified region as prescribed in that paragraph it is found would compromise international peace and international security." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb **第四項** 輸出者等は、輸出者等遵守基準に従い、輸出等を行わなければならない。 art-55-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10/par-4 An exporter or person conducting similar transactions must export goods or conduct similar transactions in accordance with the compliance standards for exporters and persons conducting similar transactions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-55-10/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-25/par-1 - art-55-10/par-1: 第四十八条第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-48/par-1 - art-55-10/par-2: 第二十五条第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-25/par-1 - art-55-10/par-2: 第四十八条第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-48/par-1 - art-55-10/par-3: 前項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の十第二項 (Article 55-10, paragraph (2)), art-55-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10/par-2 - art-55-10/par-3: 第四十八条第一項 → 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-48/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 外国為替及び外国貿易法 第五十五条の十第三項（輸出者等遵守基準） — https://japanlaw.org/en/foreign-exchange-and-foreign-trade-act/art-55-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/324AC0000000228/art-55-10/par-3 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, written 2026-11-05 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000228/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 55-10, paragraph (1) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 55-10, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act (外国為替及び外国貿易法), Article 55-10, paragraph (3) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4857/tb), retrieved 2026-11-05 - This site's parser, version 225 — 外国為替及び外国貿易法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-05