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Export Controls: Challenges and Changes For Controls on Computer Exports

T-NSIAD-00-187 Published: May 26, 2000. Publicly Released: May 26, 2000.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed export controls for high performance computers, focusing on how the executive branch: (1) assesses the national security risks associated with the export of high performance computers going to countries of concern; (2) determines when the exports of computers at existing performance levels can no longer be controlled; and (3) has addressed arrangements for post-shipment verifications of high performance computer exports.

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Computer hardware industryDual-use technologiesExport regulationForeign governmentsForeign trade policiesInternational trade restrictionSupercomputersMicroprocessorsComputersExport control