Office of Export Enforcement

The Office of Export Enforcement (OEE) is a part of the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security.

BIS is the principal agency involved in the development, implementation, and enforcement of export controls for commercial technologies and for many military technologies as a result of the President's Export Control Reform Initiative. The Office of Export Enforcement detects, prevents, investigates and assists in the sanctioning of illegal exports of such items. The United States Senate noted this in its report to accompany H.R. 2578, dated June 16, 2015.

OEE's mission is to keep the most sensitive goods out of the most dangerous hands. OEE pursues this mission by enforcing U.S. export control and related public safety laws, with a focus on violations posing the most significant threats to U.S. national and homeland security, foreign policy objectives and economic interests such as the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and their delivery systems, international terrorism and State sponsorship of terror, and unauthorized dual-use exports for military purposes.

OEE investigates violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Export Administration Regulations, the Fastener Quality Act, and other export control and public safety statutes; apprehends violators; and works with U.S. Attorneys, BIS's Office of Chief Counsel and other officials in criminal prosecutions and administrative cases based on OEE investigations. OEE Special Agents are criminal investigators who are empowered to make arrests, carry firearms, take testimony, execute search warrants, develop evidence and seize goods about to be exported illegally.^[1]

External links

• https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2578

Sources

• http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/oee

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References

Agencies under the United States Department of Commerce
Headquarters: Herbert C. Hoover Building Penny Pritzker, Secretary of Commerce Bruce H. Andrews, Deputy Secretary of Commerce
Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Economic Development Administration National Technical Information Service Minority Business Development Agency National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security	Bureau of Industry and Security
Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs	Economics and Statistics Administration Bureau of Economic Analysis Census Bureau
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade	International Trade Administration
Under Secretary of Commerce and Administrator for NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property	Patent and Trademark Office