Japan not alone in granting firms generic dual-use export licenses

摘要

Japanese authorities may have failed to detect a pattern ofnabuse of generic export licenses that, prosecutors allege,nallowed personnel at a precision engineering company in 2001nto contribute to Libya’s former uranium enrichment program,nJapanese and Western export control officials said last week.nBut they said Japan is not unique in having awarded tonexporters blanket authorizations that free them from inconvenientnred tape for individual nuclear dual-use shipments.