In today’s Washington Times, Bill Gertz penned an interesting item missing from the public debate on reforms to the export control system being implemented by the Obama Administration:
According to congressional aides, the administration has prevented U.S. intelligence agencies from conducting comprehensive assessments of the security impact of the export decontrol plan.
Prevented? In the [...]
Reminder, State Department issues proposed ITAR export control rule for replacement Parts/Components and Incorporated Articles. Miami bank owned by Ecuadorean Government fined $7m for failing to comply with Bank Secrecy Act rules. US Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Curtiss-Wright Corp. requests export license for nuclear reactor components. State Department
It is not what advocates of export control reform necessarily wanted to hear, however, a recently completed study for the Congress that was released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirms prior reports that both our allies and enemies continue to try to steal the most advanced U.S. technologies. While nothing new, U.S. companies [...]
According to the Associated Press, “Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself.” Read the entire story, here. Hudson Institute: Basque ETA Terrorists [...]
The Arms Control Wonk took strong exception with statements made by former career FSO Nicholas Burns that the five permanent members of the Security Council won World War II and wrote the Nonproliferation Treaty. Electronic goodies “Made in the USA” destined for Syria. The Bureau of Industry and Security issues a [...]
Nuclear proliferator AQ Khan will not appeal a court decision that curbs his movement and other freedoms. Meanwhile the former Pakistani Ambassador to Germany says civilian nuclear talks with U.S. not on the table, export controls and the U.S. Congress a barrier. WikiLeaks editors complain that it WikiLeaks “has been the [...]
Folks who read this site are familiar with the export control reform talisman. Seems like it has been getting a lot of use lately. Be sure to read the following piece from today’s Washington Times.
The QRS-11 is back in the news this week. QRS what? In 2006, the Boeing corporation paid a $15 million fine and signed a consent decree with the U.S. government t stemming from the the unlicensed foreign sales of commercial airplanes carrying a small gyrochip with military applications, the QRS-11. This time it was not [...]
Over at the Export Law Blog, Clif Burns pens on a speech by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on export control reforms. While it made a whole lot of sense in the mid 1990s to reform the old export control system – Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls – I still think the current [...]
The Bureau of Industry and Security reports that “five foreign subsidiaries of Thermon Manufacturing Company, a San Marcos, Texas-based firm, have agreed to pay a total of $176,000 in combined civil penalties to settle allegations that they participated in unlicensed exports and reexports of heat tracing equipment to Iran, Syria, Libya and listed [...]
The White House Press Secretary issued a statement last week that President Obama “has directed that the NEC/NSC launch a broad-based interagency process for reviewing the overall U.S. export control system, including both the dual-use and defense trade processes.”
Is it real this time? Sources on the Hill are split on this issue [...]
The Asia Times reports on a midsummer tale of two Chinese spies and export controls.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei talks about a new start for non-proliferation.
Clif Burns at the Export Law Blog penned an item on Syria sanctions relief. While it may be [...]
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