CRS Issues Report on US-Made Defense Exports
The Congressional Research Service issued a report April 30 on exports of U.S.-made defense products. The report includes explanations of U.S. regulations covering defense exports, international governing bodies of those exports -- including the Wassenaar Arrangement -- the foreign military sales process and more. The report also suggested that Congress should consider whether increasing trade should be an “explicit goal” of U.S. arms sales policy and whether current sales methods are consistent with the intent of the Arms Export Control Act.
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The CRS also questioned whether the U.S. is “adequately” providing resources for its end-use monitoring program. Some “analysts” have argued that the State Department’s “small staff” that oversees the program could “not possibly track everything that happens to billions of dollars’ worth of defense articles transferred to dozens of foreign countries each year,” the report said.