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Volume 16, Issue 190
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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DOC: Export Control Reform Talks; Foreign Regulatory Changes
Commerce, Defense Secretaries Discuss Export Control Reform. According to a Department of Commerce press release, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke met with Defense Secretary Robert Gates Sept. 22 to discuss the importance of considering improvements to the U.S. export control system that will help make U.S. exporters more competitive. The two officials “agreed to continue to work together with their counterparts at other cabinet agencies toward these important reforms,” the press release stated, and “plan to meet again in the next few weeks with fellow administration officials to address their progress.”
This week’s talks appear to be part of a broad-based interagency review of the U.S. export control system, which was launched by the White House Aug. 13. The aim of this review is to consider reforms to the system that would enhance U.S. national security, foreign policy and economic security interests. The administration’s review was announced just weeks after Secretary Locke told the trade community that undertaking a review of export controls is one of his top five priorities and that he had already instructed the Bureau of Industry and Security to start examining the entire U.S. export control system. In addition, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman, D-Calif., said last month that he has launched his own review of U.S. export controls on dual-use goods and hopes to introduce in early 2010 a new Export Administration Act that will overhaul these controls.
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