This report, dated 30 October 2018, is an update of a CRS report on the US export control system from a few years ago. The reason for the revised report is the Export Controls Act (ECA) of 2018, which went into effect in August. The ECA provides a statutory basis for the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the Commerce Department’s export controls that are the counter-part to State’s ITAR. (For many years, Commerce had been operating on the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to keep the controls of the long-expired predecessor law to the ECA in effect.)
CRS: The U.S. Export Control System and the Export Control Reform Initiative
