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Executive Order 13558 of November 9, 2010 

Export Enforcement Coordination Center 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, and in order to advance United 

States foreign policy and protect the national and economic security of 

the United States through strengthened and coordinated enforcement of 

United States export control laws and enhanced intelligence exchange in 

support of such enforcement efforts, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Policy. Export controls are critical to achieving our national 

security and foreign policy goals. To enhance our enforcement efforts and 

minimize enforcement conflicts, executive departments and agencies must 

coordinate their efforts to detect, prevent, disrupt, investigate, and prosecute 

violations of U.S. export control laws, and must share intelligence and 

law enforcement information related to these efforts to the maximum extent 

possible, consistent with national security and applicable law. 

Sec. 2. Establishment. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish, 

within the Department of Homeland Security for administrative purposes, 

an interagency Federal Export Enforcement Coordination Center (Center). 

(b) The Center shall coordinate on matters relating to export enforcement 

among the following: 

(i) the Department of State; 

(ii) the Department of the Treasury; 

(iii) the Department of Defense; 

(iv) the Department of Justice; 

(v) the Department of Commerce; 

(vi) the Department of Energy; 

(vii) the Department of Homeland Security; 

(viii) the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and 

(ix) other executive branch departments, agencies, or offices as the President, from time to time, may designate. 

(c) The Center shall have a Director, who shall be a full-time senior 

officer or employee of the Department of Homeland Security, designated 

by the Secretary of Homeland Security. The Center shall have two Deputy 

Directors, who shall be full-time senior officers or employees of the Department of Commerce and the Department of Justice, designated by the Secretary 

of Commerce and the Attorney General, respectively, detailed to the Center 

and reporting to the Director. The Center shall also have an Intelligence 

Community Liaison, who shall be a full-time senior officer or employee 

of the Federal Government, designated by the Director of National Intelligence, and detailed or assigned to the Center. 

(d) The Center shall have a full-time staff reporting to the Director. To 

the extent permitted by law, executive departments and agencies enumerated 

in subsection (b) of this section are encouraged to detail or assign their 

employees to the Center without reimbursement. 

Sec. 3. Functions. The Center shall: 

(a) serve as the primary forum within the Federal Government for executive 

departments and agencies to coordinate and enhance their export control 


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enforcement efforts and identify and resolve conflicts that have not been 

otherwise resolved in criminal and administrative investigations and actions 

involving violations of U.S. export control laws; 

(b) serve as a conduit between Federal law enforcement agencies and 

the U.S. Intelligence Community for the exchange of information related 

to potential U.S. export control violations; 

(c) serve as a primary point of contact between enforcement authorities 

and agencies engaged in export licensing; 

(d) coordinate law enforcement public outreach activities related to U.S. 

export controls; and 

(e) establish Government-wide statistical tracking capabilities for U.S. 

criminal and administrative export control enforcement activities, to be conducted by the Department of Homeland Security with information provided 

by and shared with all relevant departments and agencies participating 

in the Center. 

Sec. 4. Administration. (a) The Department of Homeland Security shall 

operate and provide funding and administrative support for the Center to 

the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(b) The Director of the Center shall convene and preside at the Center’s 

meetings, determine its agenda, direct the work of the Center, and, as appropriate to particular subject matters, organize and coordinate subgroups of 

the Center’s members. 

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be implemented consistent 

with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations. 

(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect: 

(i) authority granted by law, regulation, Executive Order, or Presidential 

Directive to an executive department, agency, or head thereof; or 

(ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 

relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals. 

(c) Nothing in this order shall be construed to provide exclusive or primary 

investigative authority to any agency. Agencies shall continue to investigate 

criminal and administrative export violations consistent with their existing 

authorities, jointly or separately, with coordination through the Center to 

enhance enforcement efforts and minimize potential for conflict. 

(d) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or 

benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any 

party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its 

officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

November 9, 2010. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28854 

Filed 11–12–10; 8:45 am] 

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