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Article: Export Exemption For U.K., Australia A Year Away.(the United States may be near providing the United Kingdom and Australia with a broad exemption to its arms export regulations)
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- Defense Daily International
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- October 31, 2003
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By Sharon Weinberger
After almost three years of negotiations, the United States may finally be moving into the last stages needed to provide the United Kingdom and Australia with a broad exemption to U.S. arms export regulations, although final implementation may be about a year away, according to a State Department official.
Preliminary negotiations with the two allies are now complete, said Stephen Brosnan, who heads the State Department's office of defense trade controls policy, and the next step is for the U.S. Congress to approve the export exemptions. "We are hoping to have consultations with Congress in this session," Brosnan said earlier this ...