Sec. 6. Eligibility of Israel for the strategic trade authorization exception to certain export control licensing requirements
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Congress finds that Israel— has declared its unilateral adherence to the Missile Technology Control Regime and the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies; is a party to— the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, signed at Geneva October 10, 1980; the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva June 17, 1925; and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material, adopted at Vienna on October 26, 1979; and is a country with a low risk of diversion of items subject to export controls.
The Secretary of Commerce shall take steps to include Israel in the list of countries eligible for the strategic trade authorization exception under section 740.20(c)(1) of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations, to the requirement for a license for the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of an item subject to controls under the Export Administration Regulations, consistent with the obligations of the United States pursuant to international agreements.