Particularly coming, as it does, in the wake of two years' worth of Congressional hearings detailing a variety of export control problems -- from satellite licensing scandals to export control administration problems, and high-performance computer exports to alleged abuses of Commerce Department discretion in the export control process -- we believe that S.1712 fails to protect U.S. national security interests.
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This collaboration went so far as to involve Commerce Department assistance to Gejdenson in drafting the Export Facilitation Act of 1990 legislation formally opposed by the Bush Administration.
"This prosecution is one of the largest resolutions of export violations with a major defense contractor in the Justice Department's history, " Fein said.
In no respect is this more true than in this legislation's determination to give wholesale discretion to the Department of Commerce vis-a-vis the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community in controlling national security export controls.
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The greatest single point of failure in maintaining a credible export control system was the neutering of the Defense Department's traditional role as the conservative anchor of the process.
As part of these responsibilities, the Export Promotion Cabinet, in coordination with the Advocacy Center at the Department of Commerce, is focused on ensuring that the Federal Government's commercial advocacy effectively promotes exports by U.S. businesses, particularly by those firms competing for international contracts against foreign firms that may benefit from strong home government support.
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.
It has been late in paying several foreign debts, including one to Britain's Export Credit Guarantee Department.
This is the direct result of major rewrites of the Export Administration Act in 1985 and 1988, by which Congress awarded the Commerce Department exclusive responsibility in a number of relevant areas.
Huawei submitted a timely request to the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Department of Commerce in advance of completing the purchase in May and the Department of Commerce certified that no license was required to export the 3Leaf technology.
"You have so many old families who have things in their collection which are not notified with the department of cultural heritage, so they can export freely, " he said.
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In fact, the Commerce Department reportedly actually went so far as to revise the stated recommendations for export approval or denial from other agencies.
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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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In the EIS, the State Department included an estimate of rail prices compared to the cost of pipeline export.
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For example, in matters such as export license applications and foreign availability assessments, Commerce is only required to consult with the Defense Department, rather than obtain DoD concurrence.
Members of the Export Promotion Cabinet, in consultation with other departments and agencies and in coordination with the Advocacy Center at the Department of Commerce, shall take steps to ensure that the Federal Government's commercial advocacy effectively promotes exports by U.S. companies.
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The controls governing America's export of satellites are part of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) and they are handled in the Department of State.
Agriculture Department and banking officials said they could not recall a previous instance in which a major guaranteed agricultural-export loan had been claimed entirely by foreign banks.
Now that Kloske is in charge of the export administration process, Commerce's continuing disregard of the advice of technical experts from the Defense Department and the intelligence community is astonishing.
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