The Center for Security Policy believes that it is incumbent on the Bush Administration to "stand-down" on further weakening of the U.S. and multilateral export control regime pending a complete reassessment of the present policy approach and rampant mismanagement of licensing decisions.
To be sure, a complete shutdown of its output would be difficult: the country has several export outlets and some redundancy in pipeline infrastructure.
The European Union has attempted to build a compromise - but their proposal has been roundly criticised by those in favour of the ban as a complete non-starter who say it does little more than impose a requirement to publish export quotas.
Developing countries would like complete freedom to do this, with few restrictions on which countries are eligible to import and export, and which drugs are covered.