[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR705.4]

[Page 108-109]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
  CHAPTER VII--BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 705_EFFECT OF IMPORTED ARTICLES ON THE NATIONAL SECURITY--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  705.4  Criteria for determining effect of imports on the national security.

    (a) To determine the effect on the national security of the imports 
of the article under investigation, the Department shall consider the 
quantity of the article in question or other circumstances related to 
its import. With regard for the requirements of national security, the 
Department shall also consider the following:
    (1) Domestic production needed for projected national defense 
requirements;
    (2) The capacity of domestic industries to meet projected national 
defense requirements;
    (3) The existing and anticipated availabilities of human resources, 
products, raw materials, production equipment and facilities, and other

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supplies and services essential to the national defense;
    (4) The growth requirements of domestic industries to meet national 
defense requirements and the supplies and services including the 
investment, exploration and development necessary to assure such growth; 
and
    (5) Any other relevant factors.
    (b) In recognition of the close relation between the strength of our 
national economy and the capacity of the United States to meet national 
security requirements, the Department shall also, with regard for the 
quantity, availability, character and uses of the imported article under 
investigation, consider the following:
    (1) The impact of foreign competition on the economic welfare of any 
domestic industry essential to our national security;
    (2) The displacement of any domestic products causing substantial 
unemployment, decrease in the revenues of government, loss of investment 
or specialized skills and productive capacity, or other serious effects; 
and
    (3) Any other relevant factors that are causing or will cause a 
weakening of our national economy.