Encyclopedia > Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls
CoCom is an acrynom for Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls. CoCom was established during the Cold War to put an embargo on Western exports to East Bloc countries.
CoCom ceased to function on March 31, 1994, and the then current control list or embargoed goods was retained by the member nations until the successor, the Wassenaar Arrangement, was established.
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CFAO 36-56 -- EXPORT CONTROLS OVER STRATEGIC AND MILITARY GOODS (http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/admfincs/subjects/cfao/036-56_e.asp)
Third, the control regimes do not require their members to fully disclose which exports they have approved and which they have denied; consequently, they lack the kind of transparency that is crucial to prevent one country from supplying an item that was denied by another.
Exportcontrols that place uneven or significant hurdles in the way of efficient sharing of information, ideas, and personnel across national boundaries are viewed by many global companies as a threat to their ability to innovate and to capture new markets.
Although export decisions are made at the member-state level, the EU’s dual-use exportcontrol regime is significant to the extent that it entails binding guidelines and common criteria.
The CoordinatingCommittee for MultilateralExportControls (COCOM) was created in 1949 for the purpose of preventing Western companies and countries from selling strategic goods and services to the Eastern bloc countries behind the "iron curtain." The founding members of COCOM were the United States, Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom.
Legislative authority controllingexports includes: The ExportControl Act of 1949, which was related to the establishment of COCOM; The Battle Act of 1951, which stopped countries exporting strategic goods to the Eastern bloc from receiving U.S. foreign aid; and the Export Administration Act of 1969, which dealt with the export of "dual use" goods.
Exportcontrols on certain radio and encryption technologies, however, remained in effect.
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