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Nope. You are wrong! https://www.hrw.org/news/2009/04/21/us-congress-bans-cluster-bomb-exports "new legislation signed into law by President Obama on March 11 permanently bans nearly all cluster bomb exports by the United States" It seems that export of such wepons is illigal by US law. The only exeption by that law will be un cluster bombs with less than 1% dud rate.
doesn't apply here, unfortunately. that law was waived by Biden as part of the process here, and has previously been waived by Trump in other circumstances:
Is that even a legitimate thing to do? Shouldn't he seek congress aproval for that? It is a law after all. It reminds me when Trump said he declassified all these documents he cought with just becaus he said so, but in reality he didn't go thought the official process to do so. I might also be wrong but currently it seems to me Biden is breaking a US law.
If I recall the law itself allows the President to waive the restriction. So in effect exporting cluster munitions requires Presidential approval. Whereas the approval for export of weapons is generally delegated to others in the State Department.
Ok. If that is correct then my mistake. I guess I didn't get that detail from my initial source. That makes me curious thought, who is being granted the approval from the president? Isn't the executive branch of the goverment who desides for the export in the first place?
I think this page here will help you out with all that kind of information:
https://www.state.gov/u-s-arms-sales-and-defense-trade
It looks like the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs handle approvals in the State Department.