The purpose of the area control list is certainly not to prohibit items. The area control list is a very blunt instrument that means that any good or technology item being exported to a particular country must be subject to a permit.
Belarus was the other one that recently came off.
As I say, it's a blunt instrument. Literally, it means somebody taking Christmas presents home to their grandmother would have to apply for an export permit. It is reserved for those countries which are the most egregious examples in the.....