Strategic Export Controls and Border Security Enhancement Act

(a) Establishment. There is authorized to be established, within the Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation of the Department of State, an Office of Export Controls and Border Security, (in this Act referred to as the Office), to perform such functions as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, or a designee, may prescribe.

(b) Purpose. The purpose of the Office program shall be to advance United States foreign policy and national security objectives by strengthening the capabilities of partner countries to protect United States-origin critical technologies and proliferation-sensitive goods and related technologies, including dual-use items, from diversion, unauthorized transfer, or misuse.

(c) Activities. In carrying out the purpose described under subsection (b), the Office should, as appropriate—

(1) support the development and implementation of legal and regulatory frameworks, licensing systems, and enforcement capabilities governing the export, reexport, and in-country transfer of proliferation-sensitive goods and related technologies, including dual-use items;

(2) strengthen partner country capacity to prevent diversion, unauthorized transfer, or misuse of proliferation-sensitive goods and related technologies, including dual-use items, end-uses and end-users that the Office determines may increase the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies;

(3) enhance the ability of partner countries to detect and interdict diversion, unauthorized transfer, or misuse of proliferation-sensitive goods and related technologies, including dual-use items, at borders, ports of entry, and other transit points, including through training, technical assistance, and the provision of appropriate equipment;

(4) assist in—

(A) securing international trade of goods that may increase the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies; and

(B) disrupting networks that may increase the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies; and

(5) carry out such other activities as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security determines appropriate to advance the purposes of the Office.