§4824 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must send Congress a yearly report by December 31 about how this subchapter was carried out in the previous fiscal year. The report must cover nine areas: how export, reexport, and in-country transfer controls affected U.S. national security or foreign policy, including license processing times; the controls’ effect on U.S. science and technology leadership; whether other countries’ controls are consistent with ours; help given to exporters, including small- and medium-sized businesses; a summary of regulatory changes from the prior fiscal year; a summary of enforcement actions, including end-use monitoring of items under the Export Administration Regulations; a summary of approved license applications to proscribed persons; efforts in the past year to meet section 4817 requirements, including any critical technologies identified and how they were controlled for export; and summaries of Department of Commerce industrial base assessments, including counterfeit electronics, foundational technologies, and other research on critical technologies and defense-related industrial capabilities. The report must be unclassified but may include a classified annex.

Title 50, §4824

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(a)The Secretary shall submit to Congress, by December 31 of each year, a report on the implementation of this subchapter during the preceding fiscal year. The report shall include a review of—

(1)the effect of controls imposed under this subchapter on exports, reexports, and in-country transfers of items in addressing threats to the national security or foreign policy of the United States, including a description of licensing processing times;

(2)the impact of such controls on the scientific and technological leadership of the United States;

(3)the consistency with such controls of export controls imposed by other countries;

(4)efforts to provide exporters with compliance assistance, including specific actions to assist small- and medium-sized businesses;

(5)a summary of regulatory changes from the prior fiscal year;

(6)a summary of export enforcement actions, including of actions taken to implement end-use monitoring of dual-use, military, and other items subject to the Export Administration Regulations;

(7)a summary of approved license applications to proscribed persons;

(8)efforts undertaken within the previous year to comply with the requirements of section 4817 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, including any critical technologies identified under such section and how or whether such critical technologies were controlled for export; and

(9)a summary of industrial base assessments conducted during the previous year by the Department of Commerce, including with respect to counterfeit electronics, foundational technologies, and other research and analysis of critical technologies and industrial capabilities of key defense-related sectors.

(b)The report required under subsection (a) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this part”, meaning part I (§§ 1751–1768) of subtitle B of title XVII of div. A of Pub. L. 115–232, known as the Export Controls Act of 2018, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of part I to the Code, see section 1751 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a

Short Title

note under section 4801 of this title and Tables. section 4817 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(8), was in the original “section 1759”, and was translated as meaning section 1758 of Pub. L. 115–232, which relates to requirements to identify and control the export of emerging and foundational technologies and is classified to section 4817 of this title, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.

§4824 Annual Report to Congress