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United States General Accounting Office
        Washington, D. C. 20548

                           FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                           EXPECTED AT 10:00 a.m. EST
                           Monday, March 5, 1979


)94359              Statement of

                  Elmer B. Staats

       Comptroller General of the United States

                     before the                 --) I-

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs


                on

[Administration of Export Controls


  c V Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:

          We are pleased to be here today to discuss with you the
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     administration of export controls. Last October, we issued a

     report on this subject, and we recently issued a second report

     which discusses additional export control issues. As you know,

     our 1976 report on East-West trade 1/ also discussed aspects of

     export control administration. In summary, our reports point

     out that the Government does not have an effective policymaking

     structure to reconcile the conflicting goals of export promotion

     and export control. Further, the decisionmaking apparatus for

     determining what technology or products should be controlled

     is unwieldy and time consuming. On top of these problems, the



     1/ The Government's Role in East-West Trade--Problems and
         Issues, February 4, 1976


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