Trade ministers flag researchers as possible vector of tech sanction-busting
A meeting of G7 trade ministers has flagged researchers as a possible route through which tech trade sanctions are being circumvented.
Japan hosted a virtual meeting of trade ministers on Tuesday, attended by reps from Italy, Canada, France, the USA, the UK, Germany, and the EU.[PDF] published after their chat states that the ministers and the nations they represent"reaffirm that export controls are a fundamental policy tool to address the challenges posed by the diversion of technology critical to military applications as well as for other activities that threaten global, regional, and national security.
Which is a polite way of saying the G7 is checking on other nations to ensure they're not being used to facilitate sanctions-busting activity. So is a following sentence in which the G7 ministers"reiterate that strong enforcement to counter evasion of export controls is an essential element and we will continue to cooperate on this issue."
Together those statements nod to the difficulty of stopping gray market exports that have, for example, seenNext, the minsters decided to"affirm the importance of cooperation on export controls on critical and emerging technologies such as microelectronics and cyber surveillance systems to address the misuse of such technologies by malicious actors and inappropriate transfers of such technologies through research activities.
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