Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 30.11.1999

Effects of Foreign Policy-Based Export Controls

The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) is reviewing the foreign policy-based export controls in the Export Administration Regulations to determine whether they should be modified, rescinded or extended. To help make these determinations, BXA is seeking comments on how existing foreign policy-based export controls have affected exporters and the general public. Under the provisions of section 6 of the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended (EAA), foreign policy controls expire one year after imposition unless they are extended. The EAA requires a report to Congress whenever foreign policy-based export controls are extended. Although the Export Administration Act (EAA) expired on August 20, 1994, the President invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and continued in effect the EAR, and, to the extent permitted by law, the provisions of the EAA in Executive Order 12924 of August 19, 1994, as extended by the President's notices of August 15, 1995 (60 FR 42767), August 14, 1996 (61 FR 42527), August 13, 1997 (62 FR 43629), August 13, 1998 (63 FR 44121), and August 10, 1999 (64 FR 44101, August 13, 1999). The Department of Commerce, insofar as appropriate, is fo