June 9, 2006
Proposal to License Scholars Is Pulled
Last week the Commerce Department withdrew its proposed rule on "deemed exports," rejecting the last of the controversial changes that colleges said would have burdened them with paperwork and stymied foreigners' participation in academic research.
The decision came less than two weeks after the department announced that it was forming a committee to study ways to control foreign students' and scholars' access to sensitive technologies.
A "deemed export" occurs when information
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