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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 4270 (Referred in Senate) — To prohibit commercial exports of certain nonlethal crowd control items and defense articles and services to the Hong... · Sec. 3

Sec. 3. Statement of policy

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It is the policy of the United States— to restrict the export of security assistance and crime control and detection instruments and equipment to any government that engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights, consistent with the requirements of section 502B(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2304(a) ); and to use export controls on crime control and detection instruments and equipment to deter the development of a consistent pattern of human rights abuses, distance the United States from such abuses, and avoid contributing to civil disorder in a country or region, in accordance with section 742.7(b) of part 774 of subtitle B of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations.
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