News Articles with Category: Export Control
October 15, 2014 – via Baker Donelson
Keep in mind that relaxed controls doesn’t mean that your licensing responsibilities will either remain the same or disappear altogether. They may require the implementation of a different procedure altogether.
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October 5, 2014 – via US Department of Defense
The Pentagon office in charge of leading the way in sales of US defense equipment to foreign governments unveiled a new strategy document on Oct. 1 aimed at making the foreign military sales (FMS) process more responsive to allied nations’ needs by creating teams that will work closely with regional partners.
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July 10, 2014 – via Us Department of Commerce
Moving items to Commerce benefits small businesses because BIS’s regulations allow for more nuanced distinctions among technologies, destinations, and end users than the State Department’s regulations.
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June 30, 2014 – via Us Department of Coomerce
15 of 21 Categories of the U.S. Munitions List have been successfully revised under the Export Control Reform Initiative.
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May 17, 2014 – via US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security
Firms exporting products that are subject to EAR must apply for an export license, unless the transaction qualifies for a license exception or “No License Required” (NLR) treatment.
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March 21, 2014 – via Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
DDTC determined that Esterline exercised inadequate corporate oversight and failed to establish an adequate export compliance program within companies it had acquired. Specifically, the DDTC pointed to Esterline’s large number of acquisitions since 2004.
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February 4, 2014 – via Seapower Magazine
As of last year, they had cleared 80 percent of the items, with potential export value of $80 billion. They expect to clear a final category, which includes commercial satellites and advanced electronics, this year
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November 13, 2013 – via US Department of Defense
Moving less sensitive items to the Commerce Control List allows us to be more flexible when authorizing licenses to U.S. allies, even as we maintain strict prohibitions on exporting without a license to countries subject to U.S. and United Nations arms embargoes and to destinations other than our allies and partners.
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October 12, 2013 – via Defense News
The first two rewritten categories to take effect cover aircraft, aircraft parts and gas turbines. The new categories and the revision of the USML as a whole is built around the idea of a positive list that specifies items that should be more carefully controlled as opposed to a sweeping net to include all items associated with defense systems.
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July 5, 2013 – via US Depatment of Commerce
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule adding to the Export Administration Regulations export controls on military vehicles and related items; vessels of war and related items; submersible vessels, oceanographic equipment and related items
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April 17, 2013 – via US Department of State
These rules, which define items regulated for export under the U.S. Munitions List’s Category VIII – Aircraft and Associated Equipment, and Category XIX – Gas Turbine Engines
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April 16, 2013 – via Kaye Scholer
The reforms will take effect 180 days from publication in the Federal Register, on October 16, 2013. Following on the heels of this first tranche of new rules, 72 additional export control regulations are scheduled for publication by the end of the year.
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March 8, 2013 – via The White House
The Executive Order consolidates and delegates to the Secretary of State all statutory responsibility for maintaining registration and licensing requirements for brokering of defense articles and services on either the State or ATF lists which both control defense articles and services under the Arms Export Control Act.
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August 15, 2012 – via The Whitehouse
Continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13222.
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July 27, 2012 – via The Hill
Though the program won’t be completely wrapped up by the end of President Obama’s first term in office, “it’ll be so close to the goal line that it will be just up to the next administration to spike the football,”
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April 30, 2012 – via Newsmax
Eager to preserve their culture of openness and global collaboration, campuses are skirting — and even flouting — export-control laws that require foreigners to hold government licenses to work on sensitive projects.
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March 7, 2012 – via The Whitehouse
Today, the Administration officially opened two new national, multi-agency centers to improve how the U.S. Government administers its export control system.
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February 7, 2012 – via Defense News
While many in the U.S. Congress view the Obama administration’s plans to reform export controls as overly ambitious, there is growing support to ease regulations on certain parts and components.
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December 23, 2011 – via Industry and Security Bureau
This proposed rule that describes how submersible vessels, oceanographic equipment and related articles that the President determines no longer warrant control under Category VI (Vessels of War and Special Naval Equipment) or Category XX (Submersible Vessels, Oceanographic and Associated Equipment) of the United States Munitions List (USML) would be controlled under the Commerce Control List (CCL)
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November 9, 2011 – via US Dept of State
The goals of our export control reform efforts are ultimately about making sure that our system protects the things it needs to protect. This will allow the U.S. Government to focus its limited resources on safeguarding and monitoring the most sensitive items. Our reform efforts will also allow us to streamline access to export controlled items for our close allies. This will help improve interoperability with our allies, as well as bolster our defense industrial base. We seek to facilitate exports to allies and partners by eliminating approximately 3,000 dual-use licenses and tens of thousands of licenses for munitions parts and components annually.
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November 7, 2011 – via AUVSI
As part of the reform, the Obama administration is moving items off the restrictive State Department-controlled International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) list and onto a more lax Commerce Control List (CCL) controlled by the Department of Commerce.
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October 25, 2011 – via InsideDefense.com
A new Pentagon report finds “a stunning increase” in espionage targeting sensitive U.S. military technology and defense industry trade secrets over the last year, including newly concerted efforts — particularly from East Asia and the Pacific — to acquire autonomous underwater vehicle technology.
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June 16, 2011 – via MMD Newswire
Major step forward in President’s reform initiative to modernize export control system
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June 16, 2011 – via Bloomberg News
Under the news rules, almost all items monitored by the Commerce Department won’t need a government license for sale to the 36 allies. The exporter will still need to obtain a pledge from the company buying the item that it won’t in turn sell to a party in a non-allied nation.
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June 1, 2011 – via Reed Smith
The Obama Administration has decided to reform the system largely through harmonization, consolidation, and lessening of export controls to encourage U.S. exports and narrow the focus of U.S. Government control efforts to the most critical goods and technologies. Here are the Top Ten things you should know about the Export Control Reform Initiative:
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May 13, 2011 – via Space News
A White House proposal to overhaul the U.S. export-licensing system could face an uphill battle against Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress who say a compelling case has yet to be made for a wholesale restructuring of the process, which strictly regulates the sale of military and dual-use technologies overseas, including U.S. commercial communications satellites and components.
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May 12, 2011 – via US Department of State
Testimony of Ellen Tauscher Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
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March 8, 2011 – via Network World
GAO watchdogs find holes in high-tech access, licensing rules
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March 8, 2011 – via Computer World
A former engineer with U.S. military contractor L-3 Communications is facing as much as 20 years in prison on charges that he illegally exported military data to China.
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January 5, 2011 – via Associated Press
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction of a retired University of Tennessee professor for passing military secrets. Plasma physics expert J. Reece Roth was found guilty in September 2008 of allowing research assistants from China and Iran to access sensitive data from a U.S. Air Force contract, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
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January 5, 2011 – via Knoxnews
University of Tennessee professor emeritus J. Reece Roth has lost his bid to avoid prison for violating the Arms Export Control Act.
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January 4, 2011 – via Threatpost
The increased focus on the acquisition of what the report terms “marine sensors technology” was a new development in 2009 and a trend that likely continued in 2010, the report said. Marine sensors technology includes things like sonar buoys, bottom scanning sonar, autonomous underwater vehicles, deep see diving bells and sensors used by the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Program.
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December 9, 2010 – via The White House
The President announced that the Administration released a series of regulations and requests for comment as part of the implementation of the new U.S. export control system announced by the President in August.
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November 9, 2010 – via The White House
The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish, within the Department of Homeland Security for administrative purposes, an interagency Federal Export Enforcement Coordination Center (Center).
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August 30, 2010 – via Wall Street Journal
The current system is a legacy of the Cold War and fails to distinguish between low-tech items and the most advanced proprietary technology.
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August 29, 2010 – via Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama will announce a series of initiatives this week aimed at streamlining the system that governs the export of weapons but also commercial products that have a potential for military use.
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