The two committees of Congress formally charged with jurisdiction for export administration issues are House Foreign Affairs and Senate Banking and Urban Affairs.
The House would permit the export of sensitive technologies even to controlled countries for the purpose of "trade shows, " irrespective of their military criticality.
The Center for Security Policy today expressed incredulity that despite mounting congressional and press criticism concerning current, deficient U.S. export control policies the White House is allowing still more radical dismantling of the existing multilateral technology security regime to proceed apace.
Any country wishing to export GMOs has to notify the clearing-house, so the recipient country can obtain the information it needs to decide the case.
The Chairman of the TPCC shall set forth the steps taken to implement this plan in the annual report to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives required by the Export Enhancement Act of 1992, Public Law 102-249, 106 Stat. 2186, and Executive Order 12870, as amended.
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The House would also confine DoD review of export licenses largely to certain exports to the Soviet Union and those Eastern European countries not qualifying for favorable licensing treatment.
The first sponsored by Senators Conrad Burns (R-MT) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in the Senate and by Rep. Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) in the House would essentially eliminate controls on the export of encryption.
Chairman Riley Bechtel was recently appointed to the Export Council, a roundtable of executives that advises the White House on trade issues.
The House version also directs that, within one year, no export licenses will be required for U.S. shipments to COCOM (1) of any militarily critical good or technology.
Fortunately, these warnings also coincide with imminent consideration by the U.S. House of Representatives on S. 230, legislation reauthorizing the Export Administration Act -- the statute which governs U.S. export controls.
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The House would further direct that no security safeguards are required for the export of supercomputers to any destination as long as they have performance capabilities at or below 25% of the average of the two most powerful supercomputers commercially available.
After holding hearings on U.S. licensed sales to Iraq in September 1990, the House Government Operations Committee sought from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export Administration, managed by then-Under Secretary of Commerce Dennis Kloske, a list of all U.S. dual-use exports licensed for sale to Iraq between 1985 and 1990.
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The idea, of course, is that export growth leads to job growth--a much needed political goal for the White House right now.
Import and export prices will be out Wednesday, and Bernanke is also testifying in front of the House Financial Services Committee that day.
The Obama administration has made export promotion a central component of its revised economic platform, and last month the White House finalized a long-stalled trade agreement with South Korea.
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Interestingly, just a few months ago, it was this same subcommittee that voted out legislation, subsequently adopted by the full House on 6 June 1990, which would greatly relax U.S. export controls and sharply diminish the influence of the Defense Department in opposing ill-advised transfers of militarily relevant technologies.
He may or may not spell it out, but there is an underlying sense from this White House, as much as the last, of that contradictory feeling that American exceptionalism is a worldwide export.
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