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Commerce Department Seeks To Identify Emerging Technologies For Export Controls

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, November 19th, 2018

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Commerce Department Seeks To Identify Emerging Technologies For Export Controls

The Department of Commerce on Monday began a congressionally-directed outreach effort to the public to sort out emerging technologies that are critical to national security that need to be controlled for exports.The Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) by the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is seeking “public comment for criteria for identifying emerging technologies that are essential to U.S. national security, for example because they have potential conventional weapons, intelligence collection, weapons of mass destruction, or terrorist…

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