In the July 30, 2004 Federal Register, an Executive Order (EO), an interim rule, and a final rule were published in order to, among other things, set forth changes to the U.S. government's export, reexport, and licensing policies with respect to Iraq.
The Journal of Commerce Online reports that the World Trade Organization (WTO) Heads of Delegations will meet on August 3, 2004 on the January 1, 2005 elimination of textile and apparel quotas imposed on WTO member countries. The article notes that only 17 countries have been invited to this meeting -including the U.S., European Union, China and India - but that other countries want to attend. (JoC Online, dated 07/27/04, www.joc.com )
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) at 15 CFR Parts 742, 748, 770, and 774, effective July 19, 2004, in order to implement decisions to move export licensing jurisdiction of certain types of energetic materials and other chemicals from the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DTC) to BIS, as well as to move such jurisdiction for other chemicals from BIS to DTC.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) at 15 CFR Parts 742, 748, 770, and 774, effective July 19, 2004, in order to implement decisions to move export licensing jurisdiction of certain types of energetic materials and other chemicals from the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DTC) to BIS, as well as to move such jurisdiction for other chemicals from BIS to DTC.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) at 15 CFR Parts 738, 742, 772, and 774, effective June 28, 2004, in order to remove certain license requirements with respect to new North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members as well as to make certain conforming corrections and clarifications.
The Bureau of Census (Census) has issued an Automated Export System (AES) Broadcast regarding the 78-hour outage that precedes the implementation of AES Commodity Redesign.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective May 6, 2004, which revises certain entries on the Commerce Control List (CCL) to conform the description of certain protection and detection equipment to that found in the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual Use Goods and Technologies (Dual Use List), to impose national security and anti-terrorism license requirements on those items, and to impose antiterrorism controls on certain items that are excluded from the Dual Use List.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective May 14, 2004, which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding new General Order No. 2 to Supplement No. 1 of 15 CFR Part 736 which implements certain export sanctions against Syria.
On May 11, 2004, President Bush signed Executive Order (EO) 13338 which implemented sanctions on Syria as a result of the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2003 (Public Law (P.L.) 108-175. EO 13338 entered into effect at 12:01 eastern daylight time on May 12, 2004.
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has issued a final rule, effective May 4, 2004, which amends 15 CFR Part 774 to correct the description of certain precursor chemicals on the Commerce Control List (CCL) to make it consistent with the list of "Schedule 2" chemicals under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).