The Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) has posted a detailed guideline manual regarding their tips for establishing an export management program.
Read the 145-page PDF here: COMPLIANCE GUIDELINES: HOW TO DEVELOP AN EFFECTIVE EXPORT MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE PROGRAM AND MANUAL
I do not have time to read through the manual in detail at the moment, but [...]
The BIS has announced that registration is now available for the upcoming Export Control Forum this February.
From BIS:
Registration is now open and the agenda has been posted for the Export Control Forum, to be held on February 22-23, 2010 in Irvine, CA.
We have changed the format and venue this year in response to recommendations you [...]
Eric L. Hirschhorn will be nominated by Pres. Barack Obama for the position of Under Secretary of the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Hirschhorn is currently a partner at Winston & Strawn, the executive secretary of the Industry Coalition on Technology Transfer, and has also authored a handbook on export controls.
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BIS has extended the denial of re-export privileges to Iran for Mahan Airways. The company may not directly or indirectly partipate or benefit from any transaction subject to EAR (Export Administration Regulations) for 180 days. It is also a violation of the EAR for any person to participate in a transaction subject to the EAR [...]
The BIS has implemented the eased export restrictions, first signed into law by President Obama on April 13rd, 2009. The BIS’s Export Arms Regulations are now updated to reflect the following changes:
The measures will allow items normally exchanged between individuals as gifts to be included in gift parcels going to Cuba and remove the requirement [...]
The BIS has announced that the US-China High Tech Working Group will be September 29th in Washington DC. US and Chinese companies will be able to discuss export controls and high tech trade. The event is presented in partnership with the National Association of Manufactureres (NAM).
BIS has released this PDF with additional information.
The complete announcement [...]
The US Bureau of Industry & Security has updated their Major Case List (PDF).
Of note:
On May 14, 2009, Joseph Piquet was sentenced 60 months in prison and two years of probation based on his role in a conspiracy to purchase high-tech, military-use electronic components (such as high power amplifiers for use in early warning radar) [...]
American Shipper has a good article from last week: Informed Exporting. Looks like the BIS is trying to improve the amount of info available on their website for exporters. According to the article this includes online compliance training tools and information to assist exporters and a Web page where sources of publicly available information on [...]
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