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The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) maintains, as part of its Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Commerce Control List (CCL), which identifies certain of the items subject to Department of Commerce jurisdiction. This final rule revises the CCL to implement changes made to the Wassenaar Arrangement's List of Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (Wassenaar List) maintained and agreed to by governments participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies (Wassenaar Arrangement, or WA) at the December 2015 WA Plenary Meeting (the Plenary). The Wassenaar Arrangement advocates implementation of effective export controls on strategic items with the objective of improving regional and international security and stability. This rule harmonizes the CCL with the changes made to the WA List at the Plenary by revising Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) controlled for national security reasons in each category of the CCL, as well as making other associated changes to the EAR. The WA agreements include raising of the Adjusted Peak Performance for high performance computers, therefore other parts of the EAR that have APP limitations are also amended by this rule, e.g., de minimis, License Exception APP, reporting requirements. This rule removes the Foreign National Review requirement associated with deemed exports under License Exceptions APP and CIV, because after years of reviewing these requests with no denials ever coming from this information BIS has determined it is not an efficient use of U.S. Government resources. Because this year's WA agreements include the total restructuring of Category 5 part 2, BIS is taking this opportunity to also streamline and update license requirements and policies associated with Category 5 part 2 in this rule.