§6728 Annual report on inspections

Summary

No later than one year after October 21, 1998, and every year after that, the President must send both a classified (secret) and an unclassified (public) report to certain congressional committees about inspections done under the Convention during the past year. Each report must give eight kinds of information, such as which U.S. companies must report under subchapter III, how many inspections happened in the United States, who the inspectors were and how many were blocked, the cost to the U.S. per inspection and total costs to U.S. firms, any possible industrial espionage or inspector misconduct, who says they lost trade secrets and what was done about it, and any delays or disruptions of inspections outside the U.S. The report goes to the named Senate and House Judiciary, Foreign Relations/International Relations, and Intelligence committees.