ACCESSION NUMBER:231253
FILE ID:EP-507
DATE:06/12/92
TITLE:U.S. TIGHTENING UP ON EXPORTS TO FOREIGN MISSILE PROGRAMS (06/12/92)
TEXT:*EPF507  06/12/92 *

U.S. TIGHTENING UP ON EXPORTS TO FOREIGN MISSILE PROGRAMS
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By Jim Shevis
USIA Staff Writer
Washington -- The Department of Commerce says that it will announce next
week tighter controls on the export of U.S. goods used in the foreign
production of missiles.

The new rules would require export licenses for any U.S. item to be used to
design, develop, produce or use missiles in North Korea, the People's
Republic of China, Brazil, India, Iran, South Africa or Pakistan.

A Commerce Department spokesperson said that a press release on the
announcement would be issued on June 15.  The regulations appeared in the
department's Federal Register June 12.  Public comment will not be
required, the spokesperson said.

The new government curbs stem from a decision by President Bush in December
1990 to impose tighter controls on U.S. exports capable of use in weapons
of mass destruction.

That decision came after Iraq's use of missiles in the Persian Gulf war, as
well as discoveries of its program to develop nuclear weapons.

Last August, the government clamped controls on exports used in chemical and
biological weapons.

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