Obama ready to ease technology export regs
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The Obama administration is ready to ease rules on exporting sensitive U.S. military products and other technology, administration officials said.
President Barack Obama is to announce Tuesday plans to consolidate some enforcement activities into one agency and develop a list that better defines which product or technology sales would be restricted, The Washington Post reported.
Different federal agencies have developed "very different control lists, with agencies fighting over who has jurisdiction," through the years, Obama said in remarks released by the White House and scheduled for delivery by video to an export conference Tuesday. "Decisions were delayed, sometimes for years, and industries lost their edge or moved abroad."
The departments of State and Commerce are developing lists that would more clearly delineate restricted products and technologies and classify them in one of three sensitivity-based tiers, the Post said.
Obama said goal of the new system is to "build higher walls around the export of our most sensitive items while allowing the export of less critical ones under less restrictive conditions."
Business and industry groups welcomed the president's planned announcement, saying changes to the export control rules could produce tens of billions of dollars in additional sales.
"We have so many goods that are subject to this regime," John Murphy, vice president of international affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told the Post. "If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority."
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