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NSIAD-84-137 1 (1984-06-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnki0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE I 21 5/ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 JUNE 15, 1984 NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION B-2 11111 liD II 9 124513 The Honorable William Proxmire United States Senate Dear Senator Proxmire: Subject: U.S. Exports Subject to National Security Controls (GAO/NSIAD-84-137) Your letter of May 22, 1984, asked us, in part, to deter- mine the (1) percent of U.S. exports subject to national secur- ity control, (2) U.S. market share in various regions of the world for products subject to national security control, and (3) volume of letters from U.S. exporters to Commerce complaining about sales lost because of licensing delays. The government does not record exports in a form amenable to making the calculations implicit in your first two questions. For example, a response to your first question would require a matching of the thousands of export categories tracked by the Bureau of the Census and the approximately 170 national security commodity control numbers used by Commerce. No crosswalk be- tween the data currently exists. Concerning your third question, U.S. exporters' letters of complaints are dispersed throughout the Commerce Department. There is no central repository for these letters, and it would take more time to locate, collect and analyze them than was available to us. Although we are unable to provide figures for total actual exports involving national security controls, we asked Commerce to develop information by country on the dollar value of such license applications approved in calendar year 1983. We then calculated what percent these represented of total U.S. exports for 1983 as recorded in the Trade Policy Information System. (See enc. I) Experience shows that the dollar value of applica- tions approved does not equate to actual exports; an exporter (483392)

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