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Legends and Markings
If you have been in the business of exporting for any length of time, no doubt you have noticed that folks don’t pay much attention to marking their documents. Now I have seen a marked increase in the Company Proprietary legend, but the words Export Controlled seem to evade the Header [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by keeton
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Developments Regarding The “Deemed Export†Rule
Within the panoply of governmental strictures encompassing the American export control world, two foundational legislative planks are the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). The ITAR imposes specific requirements and restrictions on how corporations may conduct business in the international marketplace even before a [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2008 by keeton
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That’s not an Export…That’s my laptop!!! Avoiding the curse of the “Deemed Export”.
One of the issues that seems to create great confusion and problems among those exporters of ITAR related products & information is the principle of “Deemed Exports”. With little effort, an unsuspecting USA manufacturer and/or exporter can find him/herself in trouble with [...]
Posted on March 17th, 2008 by keeton
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A commodity jurisdiction (CJ) needs to happen when a company exporting goods is either unsure whether their export is regulated by a government agency (the PMDTC in this case), or is unsure how to classify their good prior to export.
What I know about commodity jurisdictions
If you have to ask, your export will probably be considered [...]
Posted on November 29th, 2007 by keeton
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My personal paradox when it comes to import export regulations, is that by the time I’ve familiarized myself enough to talk about things intelligently I’m so engrossed in the field that I assume everyone has the same knowledge base that I do.
This comes into play on web sites like this where we start throwing around [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2007 by keeton
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So, you export military goods to another country huh? I’m sure you do everything by the rules yourself, but how many people do you have in your organzation? Does your secretary know what ITAR regulations are? What about your warehouse people?
A common failure in many controlled export businesses is to forget to [...]
Posted on October 17th, 2007 by keeton
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The purpose of the United States Department of State and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC formerly PMDTC) is to regulate and protect the interests and security of the United States. This means that in order to ship items and technology overseas that may potentially jeopardize international security US companies must undergo a [...]
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 by keeton
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Exporters of military and dual-use goods are first and foremost business people, and sometimes have the habit of skipping over the crucial export compliance steps between making the sale and delivering the product to their buyer.
Most often the results of this practice are slowed delivery schedules, government fines, and even restrictions on future exports. [...]
Posted on September 26th, 2007 by keeton
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