Export Administration Act of 1990

Summary

Export Administration Act of 1990 - Declares it to be U.S. policy to minimize the imposition of export controls and to encourage trade with all countries with which the United States has diplomatic or trading relations, except those countries with which such trade has been determined by the President to be against the national interest. Authorizes the issuance of specified export licenses, including: (1) general licenses for the export of goods and services; (2) distribution licenses (including consignees in China); and (3) operations licenses for the export and reexport of technology and related goods. Requires the Director of the Office of Strategic Trade and Technology to establish a single United States National Security Export Control List. Authorizes the President to impose national security controls on the export of U.S. goods and technology. Requires the President to establish a list of controlled countries to which export of such goods or technology would be detrimental to the national security of the United States. Requires a validated license for the export of such goods and technology. Sets forth provisions relating to the availability of such items from non-U.S. sources to controlled and non-controlled countries. Requires the Director to establish an Office of Foreign Availability. Directs the President to enter into negotiations with member governments of the Coordinating Committee with respect to specified measures that could be taken to increase the effectiveness of multilateral controls on the export of goods and technology. Sets forth specified requirements with respect to commercial agreements for the export of goods and technology between U.S. firms and controlled countries. Requires the Director to deny the export of goods and technology to any parties determined to have diverted previously exported goods and technology to a controlled country. Authorizes the President to prohibit the export of goods and technology (except medicine and certain food exports) by U.S. persons in order to further U.S. foreign policy. Requires the Director to notify specified congressional committees before any license is approved for the export of goods and technology valued at more than $1,000,000 to any country that supports international terrorism. Requires crime control and detection instruments and equipment to be approved for export by the Director. Authorizes the President to prohibit the export of goods and technology where necessary to protect the domestic economy from excessive drain of source materials. Authorizes any trade association, firm, or group of workers that may be adversely affected by short supply conditions to petition the Director to monitor such exports or impose export controls. Prohibits domestically produced crude oil transported by pipeline over a right-of-way under the Trans-Alaska Authorization Act from being exported, with specified exceptions, from the United States. Declares that such export controls shall not apply to any agricultural commodity, including fats and oils or animal hides or skins, without the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture. Directs the President to issue regulations prohibiting any U.S. person from knowingly supporting any boycott imposed by a foreign country and not supported by the United States against a country which is friendly to the United States. Authorizes any person who utilizes a product produced abroad in whole or in part from a good historically obtained from the United States but which has been subjected to export controls, or any person who historically has exported such a good, to transmit a hardship petition to the Director requesting an exemption from such controls. Sets forth specified procedures for the processing of export licenses by the Director. Sets forth civil and criminal penalties. Requires the President to impose specified sanctions against foreign persons who have violated the export control laws of a member of the Coordinating Committee. Provides for enforcement of export controls authorized under this Act. Provides for administrative and judicial review of penalties and sanctions imposed under this Act. Requires specified reports. Establishes as an independent agency the Office of Strategic Trade and Technology. Establishes the Strategic Trade Policy Council. Establishes within the Office of Strategic Trade and Technology an Office of Industry Advisory Committees. Authorizes appropriations.

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

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