AIA’s Douglass calls for U.S. relaxation of export controls
The retiring president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association of America, John Douglass, said modifying the U.S export control system could double
The retiring president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association of America, John Douglass, said modifying the U.S export control system could double the trade surplus from the present record $55 million. “We have to get rid of a Cold War philosophy that puts many civil products in the military domain,” he told Aviation International News in an exclusive interview.
Douglass, who will retire on December 31 after almost 10 years at the helm of AIA, said relaxing the controls would lead to a commensurate increase in U.S aerospace employment “and make our exportable military products less expensive because there could be far more use of interchangeable equipment between the civil and military sectors.”
