	u s house panel votes to ease export controls a key house panel voted to greatly ease government controls on exports as several house committees moved rapidly toward approval of major changes in  laws they hope will help solve u s  woes the house foreign affairs subcommittee on international economic policy voted to direct the administration to cut the list of controlled exports by per cent by removing items no longer considered important to u s military security industries had complained they were losing sales to foreign competitors who were allowed to export freely products u s companies could not sell abroad the issue has been the subject of administration debate the commerce department had held that unnecessary restrictions impeded u s exports while the defense department said current controls should be retained but better administered four congressional panels met today to consider portions of a wideranging  bill that intends to help u s companies sell more products abroad and to fight unfair foreign  practices their separate proposals some of them conflicting will be woven by house democratic leaders into a final  bill for a vote by the full house in late april sparked by the proposal of fujitsu ltd to take controlling interest in schlumberger ltd s fairchild semiconductor corp the house energy and commerce subcommittee on commerce voted to expand reagan s authority to block foreign takeovers of u s companies reagan would be able to block any takeover found to be damaging to u s economic or national security interests we are losing our semiconductors which are at the heart of our national security subcommittee chairman james florio a new jersey democrat said the subcommittee also called for the administration to consider retaliation against japan for its restrictive government procurement practices the retaliation could be triggered by a requirement that the administration investigate whether u s companies were treated unfairly and whether they have been barred from bids on lucrative public works projects such as the eight billion dlr kansai airport construction u s firms have complained they were not allowed to bid on its construction at the urging of the u s recording industry the subcommittee agreed to bar imports of a new japanese product digital audio recorders meeting in closed session the house ways and means committee agreed to allow president reagan to retaliate against foreign countries that refuse to open their markets to u s telecommunications products congressional aides said the committee also agreed u s companies would be allowed to press for relief from imports of counterfeit products made in violation of u s copyright and patent laws reuter 
