Plan Would Revamp Export Controls - Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration kicked off a broad push to revamp the nation's export control regime by proposing to raise the walls around the most sensitive U.S. technologies while lowering them for most everything else.

Mr. Gates said that the proposed changes were designed to streamline the export-review process and to protect the "crown jewel" technologies.

Plan Would Revamp Export Controls Wall Street Journal
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