WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- The Obama administration is ready to ease rules on exporting sensitive U.S. military products and other technology, administration officials said.
President Barack Obama is to announce Tuesday plans to consolidate some enforcement activities into one agency and develop a list that better defines which product or technology sales would be restricted, The Washington Post reported.
Different federal agencies have developed "very different control lists, with agencies fighting over who has jurisdiction," through the years, Obama said in remarks released by the White House and scheduled for delivery by video to an export conference Tuesday. "Decisions were delayed, sometimes for years, and industries lost their edge or moved abroad".
The departments of State and Commerce are developing lists that would more clearly delineate restricted products and technologies and classify them in one of three sensitivity-based tiers, the Post said. UPI
