>>1170083 (last bread)
Thank you Lawfag.
The Export Administration Act (EAA) of 1979 (P.L. 96-72) provided legal authority to the President to control U.S. exports for reasons of national security, foreign policy, and/or short supply. The act was in force from 1979 to 1994, with a lapse in 1984–85.
During this lapse, and upon the law's expiration, the authority of export regulations was continued by executive authority.
Presidents Reagan and Clinton each declared that the expiration created an emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and reauthorized all regulations on that basis.
Subsequent Presidents have extended the emergency each year by Presidential Notice.
>also check def of east bloc to see if it changed to include iran
It does not…but Iran seems to be "very close" with Russia.
The countries in the Eastern Bloc were Poland, East German, Czechoslovakia, Hungry, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The Eastern Bloc was a group of countries in central and eastern Europe that were dominated by the USSR from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet communist system.