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SATELLITE EXPORT RULES DAMAGING INDUSTRY
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Satellite export control rules are hampering U.S. national security and economic interests, and must be updated to protect the U.S. space industrial base, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said in April in written testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee. U.S. market share for commercial satellites dropped from 73 per cent to 27 per cent after legislation passed in 1998 to control commercial satellites as military items
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Satellite export control rules are hampering U.S. national security and economic interests, and must be updated to protect the U.S. space industrial base, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said in April in written testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade Subcommittee. U.S. market share for commercial satellites dropped from 73 per cent to 27 per cent after legislation passed in 1998 to control commercial satellites as military items
