Export Enforcement Coordination Center

2010-11-15Executive Order 13558
Signed by: Barack Obama
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Headline: Creates Federal Center to Coordinate Export Enforcement Across Agencies

What it does: Agencies must coordinate export-control enforcement, share intelligence, and participate in the new interagency center.

Real World Impact:
  • Centralizes coordination of export-control investigations across multiple federal agencies.
  • Requires agencies to share intelligence and law enforcement information where allowed.
  • Establishes data tracking and public outreach for export enforcement activities.
Topics: export enforcement, law enforcement coordination, national security, federal agency coordination

Summary

This order creates a Federal Export Enforcement Coordination Center housed in the Department of Homeland Security to strengthen and coordinate enforcement of U.S. export control laws.

It requires executive departments and agencies, law enforcement, and the intelligence community to share information, resolve enforcement conflicts, and participate in the Center under a Department of Homeland Security director with deputies from the Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice.

The goal is to protect national and economic security by improving investigations, prosecutions, public outreach, and government-wide tracking of export violations.

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