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Compliance practitioners know that commodity classifications are the essential first step in determining export control requirements, responsibilities and risks.
This week the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an advance notice of proposed rule-making (ANPRM) seeking comments from the public on criteria for identifying “emerging technologies” essential to U.S. national security.
We’re back with Part III of our blog series in understanding “technology” controlled under the EAR. In Part I, we explored the concept of controlled technology.
As technical specialists, we often get asked about Commodity Jurisdiction. The questions are simple but important and the answers are invaluable for newcomers to export control.
The goal of all good systems is incremental improvement. This is as true in export control compliance as it is in other corporate activities.
Compliance is a constant challenge. Once you have invested the time and money to develop or update an Export Compliance Program (ECP)—complete with commodity classification, comprehensive policies, effective procedures, and tailored training—you must persistently guard your system against the potential damage of external and internal transitions.
By popular demand, here is the fourth and final installment in our “technology” series.
Last week the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it had reached an agreement with Apple, Inc., to resolve apparent violations of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations (“FNKSR”).
It is fitting that the first should be last. The long-awaited revisions of USML Categories I, II, and III are now imminent and will bring the Export Control Reform (ECR) initiative, which began under the Obama Administration, very close to completion.
Earlier this month, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) published a temporary final rule limiting exports of certain kinds of personal protective equipment (PPE) from the U.S. without explicit approval from the agency.
Last week the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) rolled out three new rules that will impact U.S. export controls as they relate to China, Russia, and Venezuela.
The CTP Compliance team recently delivered a webinar as part of the International Trade in a Covid-19 World webinar series sponsored by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP).
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