
The administration of President Barack Obama is prioritizing the completion of rewriting the U.S. Munitions List (USML) in 2014 as part of its export control reform initiative. The administration’s export control reform initiative is moving certain items from the strict State Department-controlled USML to the more flexible and Commerce Department-controlled Commerce Control List (CCL). The goal of export controls is to keep national security-sensitive items like missile or satellite technology from falling into the hands of enemy states. But over…