On December 9, 2010, the President’s Export Council held its second meeting to discuss a variety of issues related to the Administration’s National Export Initiative. During the meeting, President Obama recapped recent export progress and the PEC adopted five sets of recommendations for his consideration, including:

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has issued an update document containing additions and clarifications to its Guidelines for Preparing Electronic Agreements.

Export.gov has announced a series of domestic and international trade shows that are scheduled for the remainder of 2010 and 2011.

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has announced that the following entity's address has changed for new DDTC license applications.

Representative Berman (D), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has issued a statement in response to the President’s remarks on export control reform at the President's Export Council meeting on December 9, 2010.

This notice was originally published in ITT on December 9, 2010, but a technical problem obscured part of the headline in the daily email notification. The notice covers Census officials' remarks on post-departure filing (Option 4) and Census training of U.S. Customs and Border Protection port staff on penaltiesm, etc. The remarks were made at the December 8, 2010 meeting of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee. The entire summary may be found by searching ITT's Online Archives for 10120923, or by selecting the date12/09/10 in the online news calendar, and looking under "Exports".

At the December 8, 2010 meeting of the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee, Census Bureau officials discussed various export-related issues, including post-departure filing (Option 4) and Census training of U.S. Customs and Border Protection port staff on penalties.

The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has published the minutes from the Defense Trade Advisory Group's October 20, 2010 Plenary. The minutes include a review of progress on export control reform, and discussion of three proposed International Traffic in Arms Regulations changes which address how to protect the best technologies, share security challenges, and how to prevent adversaries from obtaining these technologies, among other things.

The Department of Energy announced that Energy Secretary Chu joined seven other Government agencies on December 7, 2010, in launching the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Export Initiative, a coordinated effort to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency exports.

The Census Bureau has issued an Automated Export System broadcast announcing that the following Port of Export codes have been deleted from AES: