Export Compliance

Question: What is everyone doing for record keeping requirements on electronic transfers under the TSR and ENC license exceptions?

Besides classifying the product and checking the Prohibited Parties Lists for exports, could the membership share what other types of checks they perform before approving an export? If you use any type of internal export forms, do you mind sharing what the check items are? Our exports include materials that are usually not controlled items.

Whenever my company has a new customer or adds a product to an existing customer, the policy is to forward an end-use request form. The form is used for both domestic and international customers. The form we have requests the basic (name, address, etc.) info and then has our check of whether they are a […]

Besides the User Guide, does anyone know of available training on the use of D-Trade, either private or government sponsored?

I have received a ruling from BIS for one of our machines that the ECCN will be 2B991. We can apply for a license, but can not be guaranteed it will be granted. How do other companies deal with the aspect if you want to quote business in a country that requires the license, you […]

May a product be exported from the US if the country of origin is unknown? If so, is it acceptable to enter “unknown” on the documentation as the country of origin?

Exporters haven’t typically made “disclosures” like importers do, when dealing with basically “data” glitches, such as a value that was slightly off or a wrong HTS. With the newly enacted higher penalties for export violations (“International Emergency Economic Powers Enhancement Act” – S. 1612), are members considering getting more “radical” to institute a robust “export […]

I am in the process of establishing our export compliance controls and I am having a hard time understanding how export shipping documents are compiled for record keeping. On the import side we have ACE but on the export side I can’t find any means to extract this info. I was able to obtain one […]

Should End User Cert’s be requested for every export shipment sent internationally? If not when?

I have reviewed the Answer Database on these issues and, while some info is helpful, it is a bit generic. I hope that someone out there has faced these citizenship/HR issues before and can assist. We are trying to set up a process for HR to begin obtaining citizenship info on a global basis for […]

I’m presently working on implementing a ECP (export compliance progam). As part of this program I want to audit the freight forwarders (althought distributors designated) to make sure they are filling/filing correct SED and to make sure that our goods are going to where our distributors are telling us. We are the PPI, we ship […]

Does anyone have an export forwarder compliance audit checklist that can be made available to the membership?