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WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush on Monday paved the way for some Honeywell International Inc. and Boeing Co. technology exports to China by certifying they would not be detrimental to the US space industry or improve China's missile and space capabilities.
In a message to Congress, Bush certified that exporting the items “will not measurably improve the missile or space launch capabilities of the People's Republic of China.”
The president is required under a 1999 law to certify that exports of certain dual-use items to China would not improve the country's current missile or space launch capabilities.
The certification was for 20 Honeywell model QA 750 accelerometers to be incorporated into railway geometry measurement systems for China's Ministry of Railways, and equipment and technology associated with the production and testing of composite components for Boeing commercial aircraft.
Boeing, which won orders to sell 150 737 airplanes to China over the past year, had no immediate comment.
Honeywell could not immediately be reached.
Last year, Boeing paid $15 million to settle an alleged violation of U.S. export laws involving the sale of 19 commercial planes to China with a gyroscopic computer chip that could potentially be used for military uses.
Several years earlier, Boeing and Hughes Electronics Corp. agreed to jointly pay $32 million in civil penalties to settle U.S. government charges that they improperly shared rocket technology with China in the 1990s.
