BIS conducts an active program of international collaboration with countries
needing assistance in the development of effective export control regimes. Through
bilateral and regional cooperative activities with more than twenty countries,
BIS helps cooperating nations create the infrastructure for an effective export
control system that meets international standards, including: (1) building a
legal framework, procedures, and requirements necessary to regulate the transfers
of sensitive items; (2) enhancing enforcement capabilities to match this framework;
and (3) developing an appropriate partnership between government and industry
on export controls.
BIS administers the industry compliance program for the
Chemical
Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty that bans the development,
production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons among its signatories and
provides for an extensive verification regime to ensure adherence to its terms.
BIS also actively engages other CWC State Parties and the Technical Secretariat
of the
Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to ensure that the provisions
of the CWC are being implemented in a rigorous, analytically sound, and equitable
manner among all State Parties.
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