Since May, when the Clinton administration declared its trade embargo against Iran, U.S. diplomats have had little success in getting Europe and Japan to follow suit. Paris, Bonn and Tokyo…
Export Controls & Sanctions
The Wisconsin Project conducts research and advocacy to support robust controls on strategic goods and enforcement of autonomous and international sanctions. Export controls and sanctions are powerful means of inhibiting the spread of technologies used to make weapons of mass destruction. Listed below is a selection of the Wisconsin Project’s work in these areas, including analysis of export control enforcement cases, Iran sanctions violations, and commentary on U.S. export control policy.
U.S. Relations with China
Congressional Digest August-September 1995, pp. 218, 220-1 China should lose trade privileges with the United States unless Beijing stops sabotaging Western efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass…
Pakistan: U.S. Approves Most Nuclear-Related Exports
Less than 4 percent of U.S. applications to export nuclear dual-use equipment to Pakistan were denied from 1988 to 1992, according to a report published last year by the U.S….
Israeli Cited for Chemical Weapon Proliferation
In its May issue, the Risk Report revealed that an individual named Nahum Manbar, cited last year by the U.S. government for chemical weapon proliferation, was an Israeli citizen. It…
China: U.S. Law Controls Missile-related Exports
U.S. aerospace trade with China is growing, with annual sales now exceeding $2 billion. But exporters must pay close attention to the end-uses of their products to determine whether a…
China: List of Top U.S.-Controlled Exports to China in 1995
China imported a total of $486 million worth of Commerce-controlled dual-use products from the United States in 1995. Computers were the biggest single dollar item, followed by chemical precursors. The…
China Aims to Project its Power, Says Ambassador James R. Lilley
James R. Lilley, currently director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, served as Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 1989 to 1991, and Ambassador to the…
China Caught Selling Poison Gas Ingredients to Iran
U.S. officials have detected a series of clandestine shipments of poison gas ingredients from China to Iran, sources say. And while a dozen front companies and individuals involved in the…
China’s Missile Sales to Islamabad Worry Washington
Pakistan could deploy a nuclear missile within a few years if China continues to supply missile components and know-how. A U.S. decision whether to punish China for helping Pakistan is…
China’s Cynical Calculation
The New York Times April 24, 1995, p. A17 Secretary of State Warren Christopher could hardly have been surprised when China announced that it would sell Iran a nuclear reactor…