U.S. proposes easing computer export curbs

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Computer industry officials and US allies are disappointed at the extent to which the US proposes to ease export controls on computers. The US is expected to announce its new restrictions at a meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (Cocom) in Paris at the end of Oct 1990. The new proposal is expected to allow the export of microcomputers but will severely limit the export of workstations and other powerful systems. The government is divided over how much to ease restrictions with the Commerce Department and State Department favoring an easing of restrictions while the Pentagon and National Security Agency seeking to restrain trade. Cocom is a group of 17 Western allies and is attempting to ease trade restrictions to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Electronic computers, Microcomputers, Political aspects, Export controls, Activism, Political protest, Technology transfer, Microcomputer, International Trade, Political Issue

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U.S. is easing restrictions on exports of technology

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The Department of Commerce relaxes restrictions on the export of technologically sophisticated products. The new list is much shorter. Many products remaining on the list are communications-related, and a few relating to 'stealth' technology and strategic defense concerns are added. US intelligence agencies oppose exportation of sophisticated telecommunications equipment because it is difficult to tap. The new list was approved on May 24, 1991, by the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export controls (Cocom) because most of the products on the old list are available internationally and because the Soviet Union is now seen as less of a strategic danger.

Admin. of general economic programs, United States, Telecommunications equipment industry, Telecommunications equipment, United States foreign relations, Technology, Soviet foreign relations, Soviet Union, International trade regulation, United States. Department of Commerce, Communism, Communications equipment, Security, Export, Communications Tapping, East-West trade (1945- ), East-West trade, Communism and technology

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