
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, August 27, 1993                   TAG: 9308270168
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

CLINTON EASES EXPORT CURBS ON COMPUTERS

The Clinton administration will relax strategic export controls on general-purpose computers, a decision the Commerce Department predicted Thursday will improve the U.S. computer industry's international competitiveness.

Industry executives were more subdued in their reaction. The relaxation falls considerably short of the urgings of the American Electronics Association, they said.

"While we welcome this initial step, it is only a down payment," said J. Richard Iverson, association president. The easing, he said, "barely allows the industry to catch up with our competitors. . . . This policy will be obsolete in five months."

The American Electronics Association had pressed the Commerce Department to raise the threshold for requiring government export licenses from 12.5 million to 210 million theoretical operations per second.

- Journal of Commerce

by CNB