Export Compliance Daily is a Warren News publication.

State Dept. Official Says It Will Take Time to Allow Imports from Burma

It remains somewhat unclear how long it will take for the U.S. to open up to imports from Burma, a senior State Department official said in a briefing Sept. 26 in New York City. The official said that will require…

Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article

Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.

a waiver to be done by the Administration, and State "will be consulting with Congress quite closely. "I don't know exactly how long" the process will take, the official said: "I always underestimate how long it's going to take, but we want to get it started through consultations and work on all the legalities we need to touch before it's done."