International Trade Law News

The Heritage Foundation last Friday held a program entitled "The Future of Export Control Policy: Protecting Sensitive Technologies and Promoting a Healthy Defense Industrial Base." The panelists incuded Peter Lichtenbaum, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Ambassador William Courtney of Computer Sciences Corporation and Daniella Markheim, the Heritage Foundation's Senior Analyst in Trade Policy. The panelists have some interesting things to say on a number of export control topics, including U.S. competiveness, foreign availability, defense trade controls and technology transfer issues to foreign nationals. This program is worth your time if you are interested in export control policy issues. You can view this event or download it to your iPod here (helpful hint: skip the first five minutes of the program).