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  2. Export Control Act - Wikipedia

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    The Export Control Act of 1940 was one in a series of legislative efforts by the US government and initially the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to accomplish two tasks: to avoid scarcity of critical commodities in a likely prewar environment [1] and to limit the exportation of materiel to Imperial Japan.

  3. Export control - Wikipedia

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    A significant piece of legislation was the Export Control Act of 1940 which inter alia aimed to restrict shipments of material to pre-war Japan. In the United Kingdom, the Import, Export and Customs Power (Defence) Act of 1939 was the main legislation prior to World War II. [3]

  4. Board of Economic Warfare - Wikipedia

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    The Office of Administrator of Export Control (also referred to as the Export Control Administration) was established in the United States by Presidential Proclamation 2413, July 2, 1940, to administer export licensing provisions of the act of July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714). Brigadier General Russell Lamont Maxwell, United States Army, headed up ...

  5. Prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

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    In 1938, the U.S. began to adopt a succession of increasingly-restrictive trade restrictions with Japan, including terminating its 1911 commercial treaty with Japan in 1939, which was further tightened by the Export Control Act of 1940.

  6. Military history of the United States during World War II

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    The United States responded by placing a complete embargo on Japan through the Export Control Act of 1940, freezing Japanese bank accounts, halting negotiations with Japanese diplomats, and supplying China through the Burma Road. [12]

  7. China slams U.S. for adding firms to export control list over ...

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    China criticized the U.S. decision to add multiple Chinese entities to its export control list in a bid to curb Russia’s access to U.S. weapons technology.

  8. US restricts trade with 42 Chinese entities over support for ...

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday added 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over their support for Moscow's military and defense industrial base ...

  9. French Indochina in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Reacting to the initial Japanese presence in Indochina, on July 5, the U.S. Congress passed the Export Control Act, banning the shipment of aircraft parts and key minerals and chemicals to Japan, which was followed three weeks later by restrictions on the shipment of petroleum products and scrap metal as well. [14]