Abstract
The Commerce Department being tight-lipped about the number of declarations it has received from chemical and pharmaceutical companies complying with U.S. implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). On Dec. 30, 1999, Commerce issued regulations requiring the declarations, which were due on March 30. The day before the deadline, only 534 declarations of an expected 10,000 had been received, Steven C. Goldman, director of the Bureau of Export Administration's Office of Chemical & Biological Weapons Conventions, told attendees at a chemical industry meeting in Washington, D.C. Declarations have since been trickling in, but Goldman's office has refused to release new figures. Even the State Department's National Authority Office, which will be submitting aggregated data to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, has been denied preliminary data. At press time, Eugene Cottilli, Bureau of Export Administration spokesman, said the number is considerably beyo...
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