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 110 STAT. 478 PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 50 USC app. SEC. 1322. NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF UNITED STATES 2404 note. EXPORT CONTROL POLICY. (a) FINDINGS. —Congress makes the following findings: (1) Export controls remain an important element of the national security policy of the United States. (2) It is in the national security interest that United States export control policy be effective in preventing the transfer, to potential adversaries or combatants of the United States, of technology that threatens the national security or defense of the United States. (3) It is in the national security interest that the United States monitor aggressively the export of militarily critical technology in order to prevent its diversion to potential adversaries or combatants of the United States. (4) The Department of Defense relies increasingly on commercial and dual-use technologies, products, and processes to support United States military capabilities and economic strength. (5) The maintenance of the military advantage of the United States depends on effective export controls on dualuse items and technologies that are critical to the military capabilities of the Armed Forces. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS. —It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the Secretary of Defense should evaluate license applications for the export of militarily critical commodities the export of which is controlled for national security reasons if those commodities are to be exported to certain countries of concern; (2) the Secretary of Defense should identify the dual-use items and technologies that are critical to the military capabilities of the Armed Forces, including the military use made of such items and technologies; (3) upon identification by the Secretary of Defense of the dual-use items and technologies referred to in paragraph (2), the President should ensure effective export controls or use unilateral export controls on dual-use items and technologies that are critical to the military capabilities of the Armed Forces (regardless of the availability of such items or technologies overseas) with respect to the countries that— (A) pose a threat to the national security interests of the United States; and (B) are not members in good standing of bilateral or multilateral agreements to which the United States is a party on the use of such items and technologies; and (4) the President, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Defense, should ensure effective controls on the re-export by other countries of dual-use items and technologies that are critical to the military capabilities of the Armed Forces. President. (c) ANNUAL REPORT.— (1) Not later than December 1 of each year through 1999, the President shall submit to the committees specified in paragraph (4) a report on the effect of the export control policy of the United States on the national security interests of the United States. (2) The report shall include the following: (A) A list setting forth each country determined by the Secretary of Defense, the intelligence community, and other appropriate agencies to be a rogue nation or potential adversary or combatant of the United States.

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