Good morning and thank you all for joining us. Also our livestream audience. Im Atlantic Council president and ceo fred kempe. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use aciraq, aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here, when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member mijid jafar here. Thank you, Crescent Petroleum for this, for iraqi Global Energy center. Miji dichlt has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors both in the Business World and analyst of the region. And its always a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by Iraq Initiative and global initiative. Our Iraq Initiative is led by abbas kadhim, who will be our moderator. Its been a game changer having abbas working with us. Hes one of those rare individuals who unde
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Port of entry. What in your overall system today categorically prevents that . So we have a notification system. When we refuse an entry that electronic notification system not only notifies customs and border protection, but all the other fda district offices imports. And so how is that batch tagged indelibly so that that notification is meaningful so that those other ports can identify the same batch were talking about. So as you may be aware, weve been looking working for many years to try to get a marking rule that would provide that marking of the product. That is not in place yet. But right now, we do notifications based off the data that we have on who the importer, is what the commodity line is, and make sure everyone is aware about that shipment was refused. So if they there isnt a set marking rule. So if they change the packaging or any of the markings, they could very possibly get away with what im describing . The system is not foolproof. I agree with you. But we do do noti
I am not confident i can support this agreement. I think it needs additional strengthening if we are going to be confident that the policy that we have now doesnt help china far far more than it is going to harm the long term nuclear and Ballistic Missile nonproliferation agenda which we put at the highest pinnacle of American Public policy. We look forward to your input in that regard and it is fascinating that our witnesses clearly state that china is in violation of the existing agreement and yet we are extending that agreement. Senator perdue. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And thank you, general, and mrs. For your lifelong dedication and service to this country. And thank you for your testimony last night in a classified environment. Im be very brief mr. Chairman. I agree with senator markey. I have done business in china. If it was consistent with their Strategic Initiatives and objectives, i believe they could police this but let me just you touched on several proliferation questions