(Washington Reuters) The US State Department hopes to finalize the new trade exemption measures in Australia and Britain, Britain, and Britain, Britain, and Britain, and Britain, Britain and the United States within 120 days.Although this means that AUKUS must delay the implementation of key technical sharing, it also shows that it has made positive progress.
AUKUS, established in Australia and the United States in 2021, is designed to jointly enhance military forces and fight against China's military expansion in the Indo -Pacific region.Their first cooperation project was to provide nuclear submarine technology to Australia to help Australia formed nuclear submarine forces.However, shared high -level confidentiality technology is strictly controlled by the International Trafics Tranation in Arms Regulations, referred to as ITAR).
According to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Law signed by President Biden on December 22 last year, he must determine whether Australia and the United Kingdom have a comparable export control system with the United States within 120 days to obtain trade exemptions.Six (April 20) expires.
The U.S. State Department issued a statement on Friday before the deadline expired saying: "In the shared standard framework with Australia and Britain, the exemption of our export control system is to use and maximize the innovation force of our defense industrial base to the maximum extent.The key ... We are completely confident that in the next 120 days, according to the opinions of the relevant parties, the new trade exemption measures are finally finalized.
The British government issued a statement saying that significant progress in AUKUS has made significant progress, and said that Britain and Australia are expected to meet the requirements of the US Defense Authorization Law and benefit from trade exemption.
Australia also welcomes the United States for a practical steps for the United States to simplify AUKUS export control permits.The Australian side said in a statement: "The US Department of Commerce decided to establish a military -civilian dual -use product export environment between AUKUS partners, which is another major measure to create seamless environments for innovation, cooperation and collaboration."
The US Department of Commerce said on Thursday that it is shrinking export control requirements for Australia and Britain in order to promote cooperation with Australia and Britain within the AUKUS framework.However, the Ministry of Commerce is only responsible for issuing licenses for some defense -related items and does not cover all items controlled by ITAR.
