The Bush Administration has decided to decontrol next week yet another sensitive dual-use technology: polysilicon.
If the situation weren't complex enough, another issue's arisen lately - what you might call "dual-use" research.
The Soviet armed forces' appetite for sophisticated "dual-use" technology vastly exceeds Moscow's ability to pay for it.
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In this case of rare earths and dual-use magnet technology, no quick or easy resolution is likely.
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In today's international environment, however, there seems to be little concern about the transfer of even sophisticated "dual-use" technology.
Dual-use equipment and technology can be used for both military and civilian purposes.
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At this meeting, the United States is poised to agree to the most sweeping decontrol of dual-use technology in history.
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Complicating the issue is the largely dual-use nature of space technology, which can be used for both civilian and military purposes.
Dual-use technology experts have indicated that perhaps as many as half of the proposed items can be decontrolled without national security consequences.
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As a practical matter, rigorous national security reviews of sensitive dual-use technologies often cannot be performed in so short a period of time.
The Dutch controls, stemming from European Union legislation that requires a permit to be issued for the export of dual-use materials, remain in force.
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In particular, the creation of new high-level U.S.-Soviet working groups on economic issues and the decontrol of sophisticated dual-use technology should be deferred indefinitely.
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The Council also needs member states to strengthen export, customs and financial controls on dual-use items that are "below grade" of those newly sanctioned items.
Their purpose: to finalize an agreement that would drastically reduce the list of dual-use goods and technologies controlled by the West for national security purposes.
The much-ballyhooed "Dual-Use Initiative" was advertised as the Defense Secretary's plan to cut DoD procurement costs by using commercial technology in weapons systems wherever possible.
The likelihood that dual-use technology is diverted to nefarious purposes is increased when a company, as is the case with Technip, contracts with state-owned companies.
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That's because its wares are dual-use inputs rather than complete weapons.
Under these circumstances, it would be wholly unjustified to think that diversions of significant dual-use technologies made available to Eastern Europe will not find their way to Moscow.
Suppose the United States seizes a vessel it suspects of shipping dual-use items that might be utilized to build weapons of mass destruction or other tools of terrorism.
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Even an improved civil telecommunications system has obvious dual-use potential.
If authorized by Congress, the risks of removing space-related dual-use items from the USML could be acceptably managed through controls and licensing policies under the Commerce Control List (CCL).
The Conservative's Lord Patten said civilian goods did flow to Gaza "in parallel with the real blockade against arms, against munitions and against some dual-use materials that can be misused".
The restraints on U.S. exports to Libya under the terrorism list prohibit the sale of dual-use goods -- items that could be used for military purposes, such as ammunition and some goods related to civil aviation.
In addition to technology sharing arrangements that flow from security ties, both Poland and Hungary are signatories of CMEA 2000, a high technology cooperation agreement that envisions codevelopment, coproduction and other collaboration in dual-use and other technologies.
Worse, those probes reportedly represent but a small fraction of the more than 1, 000 German businesses suspected of illegally providing Third World countries with advanced weapons and dual-use technologies (namely, those with both civilian and military applications).
What does it say about Germany's determination to protect dangerous dual-use technologies that this problem -- which was clearly identified as a factor contributing to Bonn's failures in the Rabta case -- remains uncorrected to this day?
In 2011, the US director of national intelligence concluded that Syria remained "dependent on foreign sources for key elements" of its chemical weapons programme, including precursor chemicals, which are generally dual-use chemicals that can be combined to produce blister or nerve agents.
The restraints on U.S. exports to Libya under the State Department's terrorism list prohibit the sale of so-called dual-use goods -- items that could be used for military purposes -- such as ammunition and some goods related to civil aviation.
Compared to the United States, other nations have fewer export controls on commercial space and space-related items, including other advanced space-capable nations who are also our partners in the Wassenaar Arrangement for Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies.
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