Export Compliance Certification: Understanding the Benefits and Steps for Exporting Businesses

EAR, ITAR

Complying with U.S. export regulations is no easy task. If you are the person in your organization who’s responsible for handling export compliance issues and ensuring successful compliance, there’s a lot riding on your shoulders. Failure to achieve compliance could...

The Export Compliance Basics of ITAR and EAR – Understanding Key Terms, Issues, Similarities and Differences

EAR, ITAR, Software

At the Export Compliance Training Institute, we field questions every day about the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) export control regulations. Complying with these regulations is essential for...

They’re Here! Final Rules to Revise USML Cats. I-III Set to be Published

BIS, CCL, Commerce Dept, DDTC, Defense Trade Controls, EAR, ECCN Changes, ITAR, Press release, State Dept, USML

By: Johanna Reeves, Esq., jreeves@reevesdola.com; Reeves & Dola LLP.  www.ReevesDola.com After almost ten long years of fits and starts and Congressional holds, today the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce released their respective Final Rules to remove most...

BIS Publishes Interim Rule for Adding Controls on Imagery Analysis Software

BIS, CCL, Cloud Computing, Commerce Dept, EAR, Export License, Licensing, Wassenaar

On January 6, 2020 The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to classify software specially designed to automate the analysis of geospatial imagery under the Export Control...

Canadian Man Sentenced to Over 4 Years in Prison for Smuggling Handguns Through Library Bathroom Trashcans

BIS, Canada, Commerce Dept, Denied & Restricted Parties, EAR, Enforcement, Violations & Fines

By: Danielle Hatch Alexis Vlachos, 41, of Montreal, Quebec has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for smuggling over 104 handguns from the US to Canada between 2010 and 2011. Vlachos worked with Annette Wexler and Jaime Ruiz to create a scheme to purchase handguns...

BIS Releases General Advisory Opinion Related to Listed Entities

BIS, Commerce Dept, Denied & Restricted Parties, EAR, Press release

By: Danielle Hatch The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has released a General Advisory Opinion to help field some of the many questions it has received since the addition of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei) and many of its non-US affiliates to BIS’s Entity...