Title 50 — War and National DefenseRelease 119-73
§1214 GAO STUDY ON CERTAIN COMPUTERS; END USER INFORMATION ASSISTANCE.
Title 50 › Chapter CHAPTER 56— - EXPORT ADMINISTRATION › § 1214
Summary
Requires the Comptroller General to give the congressional committees named in section 1215 a study of national security risks from selling computers that do between 2,000 and 7,000 MTOPS to end users in the countries listed in 15 C.F.R. 740.7(d) as of June 10, 1997, and to look at foreign availability and effects on U.S. exporters. The Secretary of Commerce must create a procedure so exporters can get information about questionable end users in those countries.
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Title 50, §1214
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“(a)The Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional committees specified in section 1215 a study of the national security risks relating to the sale of computers with a composite theoretical performance of between 2,000 and 7,000 millions of theoretical operations per second (MTOPS) to end users in countries specified in subsection (c). The study shall also analyze any foreign availability of computers described in the preceding sentence and the impact of such sales on United States exporters.
“(b)The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a procedure by which exporters may seek information on questionable end users in countries specified in subsection (c) who are seeking to obtain computers described in subsection (a).
“(c)For purposes of subsections (a) and (b), the countries specified in this subsection are the countries listed as ‘Computer Tier 3’ eligible countries in section 740.7(d) of title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on June 10, 1997.
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50 U.S.C. § 1214
Title 50 — War and National Defense
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73