Export Control Modernization Effort Attracts More Supporters
May 30, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The goal of the effort is to boost U.S. national security and economic strength by making the export control system more predictable, efficient and transparent, according to the group.
The latest organizations to join the coalition include:
- American Association of Exporters and Importers.
- American Electronics Association.
- Business Roundtable.
- National Defense Industrial Association.
- General Aviation Manufacturers Association.
- Government Electronics and Information Technology Association.
- Industrial Fasteners Institute.
- Satellite Industry Association.
- Space Foundation.
- U.S. Chamber's Space Enterprise Council.
The new members join eight other advocacy groups that signed on as original members when the coalition formed in April. Original members include:
- Aerospace Industries Association.
- Association for Manufacturing Technology.
- Coalition for Employment through Exports.
- Electronic Industries Alliance.
- Information Technology Industry Council.
- National Association of Manufacturers. National Foreign Trade Council.
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Among the group's first acts was to send a letter to President George W. Bush asking that he take immediate steps to modernize the system through administrative - non-legislative - changes. The letter said the system should continue to protect America's most sensitive military technologies from adversaries and rivals, while working to maximize the benefits of trade and technology cooperation with the country's allies.
The coalition presented the administration with 19 specific steps to improve the export control system. Coalition officials received acknowledgement of the proposals from administration representatives and have established an ongoing discussion with them, the group said.