Maintaining American Superiority by Improving Export Control Transparency Act

Annual export license transparency reports

This bill would require the Secretary to send Congress yearly reports on export license applications and related enforcement actions. The first report would be due not later than one year after enactment, and reports would follow at least annually, subject to available appropriations. Each report would cover the one-year period preceding the prior one-year period and would list, for each application to certain "covered entities," the applicant name; a short item description (including ECCN and control level, if applicable); end-user name and location; an estimated value; the decision; and the submission date. Reports would also give dates, locations, and results of enforcement checks and include aggregate statistics. Detailed case information would remain exempt from public disclosure under section 1761(h)(1). "Covered entity" would mean an entity both located or operating in Country Group D:5 and listed in Supplement No. 4 or No. 7 to part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations. Reports would go to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.