11.   Bureaucratic wrangling over which government agency had authority to issue export licenses prompted Russia to halt exports of palladium and platinum last year.

12.   But it can take six months or more for American companies to secure an export license.

13.   But the committee chose not to examine whether campaign contributions to Democrats had influenced decisions to grant export licenses for sensitive military and satellite technology to China.

14.   By law, the State Department can take only foreign policy and national security factors into account when deciding an export license.

15.   Buyers of the reserve crude are free to apply for export licenses, though the length of the process might discourage such a move.

16.   Clinton granted the waiver for the Hughes project two years ago and the company obtained the necessary export licenses.

17.   Companies that violate the embargo are subject to having their export licenses revoked by the Commerce Department.

18.   Could the Getty make another stab at buying a Canova without an export license?

19.   Current law requires him to get an export license to put a program like Snuffle, which scrambles e-mail messages, up on the Internet.

20.   Exports of the precious metal were held up by bureaucratic disputes over control of export licenses.