The bill would create an Office of Export Controls and Border Security inside the Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the Department of State. The Office’s purpose is to help partner countries protect United States-origin critical technologies and proliferation-sensitive goods, including dual-use items, from diversion, unauthorized transfer, or misuse. The Office may help build legal and regulatory systems, licensing and enforcement capacity, and border detection and interdiction at ports and transit points. It may provide training, technical help, and equipment. The Secretary of State, through the Office, must develop a strategy—working with other federal agencies and partners—that identifies priority regions and coordinates assistance. The strategy may use artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. The Secretary must report the strategy to congressional committees within 180 days in unclassified form, with a possible classified annex. The bill also allows the Secretary to set procedures to coordinate similar State Department programs and defines “proliferation-sensitive goods and related technologies” and references the statutory meaning of “dual-use.”
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The bill’s text and Sense of Congress describe the Office as a way to advance U.S. foreign policy and national security by promoting compliance with nonproliferation goals, strengthening responsible trade in strategic and dual-use items, improving partner country export controls and customs enforcement, and disrupting networks that might increase proliferation risks.
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