NSIAD-97-4ExportControlsSensitiveMachineTool.PDFVIP

United States General Accounting Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters November 1996 EXPORT CONTROLS Sensitive Machine Tool Exports to China G A O years 1921 - 1996 GAO/NSIAD-97-4 United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 National Security and International Affairs Division B-272257 November 19, 1996 The Honorable Floyd D. Spence Chairman, Committee on National Security House of Representatives The Honorable Frank Wolf House of Representatives On September 14, 1994, the Department of Commerce approved an export of machine tools to China. These tools had been used at a plant in Columbus, Ohio, that produced aircraft and missiles for the U.S. military. The contractor, McDonnell Douglas Corporation, was closing the plant and arranged for the sale of the tools to the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC) for use at the CATIC Machining Center, a Chinese government-owned facility. The