BIS Continuing Export Control Reform, Export Official Says
The Bureau of Industry and Security is continuing export control reform (ECR) work left by the Obama administration, BIS Assistant Secretary for Export Administration Richard Ashooh said Oct. 3 during his agency’s annual Washington export control policy conference. BIS has…
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not yet shifted items from U.S. Munitions List Categories I (firearms, close assault weapons, and combat shotguns), II (guns and armament) and III (ammunition/ordnance) to the Commerce Control List, after the Obama administration didn’t continue ECR for those classes of goods (see 1612150032). “BIS is working hard to transfer the remaining items identified in ECR, which have yet to be implemented, but we’re working hard,” Ashooh said. “And this is emblematic of our attentions to ECR, to ensure that the broad changes made, and about to be made, are fully implemented and understood by the export community.”