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...Shattuck report calls on Bush to revamp the classification system and reduce the existing system of export controls and other related restrictions regarding the dissemination of unclassified scientific and technical information. It comes at a crucial time, when the United States is falling behind in the race to develop new technology...
...partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy 188,000 jobs and $9 billion a year and was a major factor contributing to the nation's record trade deficit...
...plan calls for the revision of the current system of labeling as "classified" scientific information whose release officials believe might endanger national security, and urges a lifting of restrictions on the export of unclassified technical data...
...capable of producing commodities other than chemical weapons, does not violate international law. Moreover, some or even all of the West German firms so far implicated in the project may have remained within the bounds of West German law. But that is not saying much. The country's export regulations are among the loosest in the world. The Economics Ministry processes some 70,000 chemical-industry export applications each year. Even the tighter regulations announced in the wake of the Libyan scandal, Economics Minister Helmut Haussmann maintained, do not guarantee that unscrupulous manufacturers will refrain from conducting business as usual...
...provide a panel of West German officials with a full intelligence briefing in Washington. Perhaps seizing on that proposal as a diplomatic way to take a new tack, Genscher agreed not only to send such a delegation but also to tighten West Germany's notoriously loose regulations governing the export of potentially dangerous products, including chemicals. Two days later Bonn announced plans to increase the number of customer nations whose purchases are monitored and to impose more stringent reporting requirements for exporting firms...