357. National Security Decision Memorandum 1551
Washington, February 17, 1972.
TO
- The Secretary of State
- The Secretary of Treasury
- The Secretary of Defense
- The Secretary of Commerce
SUBJECT
- Relaxation of Restrictions on Trade with People’s Republic of China
The President has considered the findings and recommendations forwarded in the report of the Under Secretaries Committee regarding trade and travel relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.2 Based on that report he has made the following decisions:3
- 1.
- The Secretary of Commerce should transfer the People’s Republic of China from Country Group Z of the Commodity Control List to Country Group Y.
- 2.
- The Secretary of the Treasury should eliminate the Foreign Assets Control requirement that subsidiaries of U.S. firms in COCOM countries obtain a Treasury license in addition to a host country license for the export of strategic goods to the People’s Republic of China, and the requirement that subsidiaries of U.S. firms abroad obtain prior Treasury licensing for export of foreign technology to the People’s Republic of China.
Additional recommendations contained in the Under Secretaries report are under consideration.
Henry A. Kissinger
- Source: National Archives, RG 59, S/S Files: Lot 83 D 305, NSDM 155. Secret. Copies were sent to the Attorney General and the Director of Central Intelligence.↩
- Document 354.↩
- See Document 356.↩