U.S.-China commission calls for new export control entity

Congress should merge several export control and sanctions-related agencies to create a “new unified economic statecraft entity,” the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission contends in its latest report to Congress, a move it says would reduce interagency in-fighting and prioritize national security-based restrictions over other business considerations, Inside U.S. Trade reported.

Congress created the commission in 2000 to provide recommendations to the legislative and executive branches on policies addressing the trade and security relationship between the U.S. and...