LIABILITY/ RISK

Our US company (which has several foreign locations) was recently merged with a company in France. Last week I met the company Global Logistics Director who is from the French company and resides in France. He believes that everything is a machine spare part. They do not apply tariff numbers under General Rules of Interpretation. […]

Our company manufactures software. If we were to find out that a customer of ours is using our software to write a program to be used in an application in an embargoed country, what is our liability? The software package itself would stay in the permitted country but the software program (executable) would be exported. […]