Lessons Learned from Industry Engagement in Export Controls

Abstract

There are several U.S. government-sponsored programs with significant experience engaging with foreign government and industry partners to support capacity-building in export controls. This work seeks to answer the question: How can the outreach experience of the U.S. government-sponsored export control capacity-building programs (ECCBP) inform best practices for engaging with advanced reactor vendors in the domain of international nuclear safeguards? To answer this question, we interviewed export control subject matter experts with experience working for the U.S. ECCBPs – the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program, and the International Nonproliferation Export Control Program (INECP) – and developed a set of recommendations for industry engagement based on the collective experience of interviewees.