MANDATORY AES REPORT NEAR READY FOR US CONGRESS

MANDATORY AES REPORT NEAR READY FOR US CONGRESS    A report reviewing the feasibility of requiring all U.S. export data to be filed electronically to the government is expected to be ready for congressional review by May 29.
   The report, which was initiated by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2000, required the secretaries of Commerce, State, Defense, Energy and Treasury, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to determine whether it’s advisable and feasible to process all export declarations through the Automated Export System.
   “We’re hard at work here to get this done,” said C. Harvey Monk Jr., chief of the Foreign Trade Division for Commerce’s Census Bureau. He declined to comment about the report’s recommendations.
   The administration will give the report to the Senate Foreign Relations and House International Relations Committees for their review.
   In the same legislation, the secretaries of Commerce, Treasury and the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, must also prepare a report about the security processing sensitive data in AES for exports of munitions and cargo listed in the Commerce Control List. This    report is expected to be completed by late summer.