Many visa and export controls that the United States developed during the Cold War-era now harm the country’s security and economy and should be restructured immediately, according to a report released by a committee of the National Academies’ National Research Council.
The report, “Beyond Fortress America: National Security Controls on Science and Technology in a Globalized World,” released Jan. 8 said the U.S. should update its policies to reflect current national security and economic realities. That should be done first at the presidential level through an executive order and will eventually require legislative reform, the committee said in a news release.
The committee also urged creating specific principles that would be used to determine which goods or technologies should be placed on the export control lists. The lists are regularly expanded but rarely shortened, and the panel recommended adding a sunset rule that would remove items after a specified amount of time.
The U.S. “needs to change to a philosophy that everything is open and restricted only when it is demonstrated that it needs to be," Brent Scowcroft, president of the Scowcroft Group and a former national security adviser to President George H.W. Bush, said in a news release. Scowcroft co-chaired the committee.
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