Training
All effective compliance programs contain training. Don’t forget to train your new people who are involved in the export process. DL Exports International offers training classes throughout the year. Please note that we have added classes in beautiful Newport, RI.
Visit:
http://www.dlexports.com/training.
DTrade users – old forms no longer accepted
If you have not submitted a license in a few months and you saved your own template, you may need to download the new forms, now part of D-Trade 2. DTrade 1 is no longer an option for submitting license applications. To ensure you have the latest copy of the Forms and Batch schemas, please download them from the DTrade 2 web site at the following: https://dt2.pmddtc.state.gov/dtrade/CertificateLogin.
BIS announces changes to Encryption Regulations
- BIS published an advisory opinion that clarified that companies would not be violating laws if they were to post software containing encryption functionality on the web for free download, and the software was downloaded in an embargoed country, unbeknownst to the company.
- As of now, hardware and software in which the encryption is "ancillary" do not need to undergo a one-time review by BIS and NSA, and are not subject to the semi-annual export reporting requierments.
- President Obama announced that the administration was working to replace the current process for encryption items, which will eliminate up to 85 percent of all the technical reviews of these products.
BAE has ITAR export licenses suspended for corruption charges and is fined $400M
In an unusual joint agreement, DHL signed a joint settlement agreement with BIS and OFAC based on allegations that DHL unlawfully aided and abetted the illegal exportation of goods to Syria, Iran and Sudan from 2004 to 2006 and failed to comply with record keeping requirements of the EAR and OFAC regulations. DHL will also conduct external audits covering exports to those countries from March 2007 through December 2011.
Obama Vows To Reform Export Control Process
Gates announced that the administration plans to combine the State Dept and Commerce Dept licensing process into one agency.
From press release – “While Cabinet-level officials have already endorsed the creation of a single agency, which would combine the functions currently spread among the departments of Defense, State and Commerce, the Gates speech has been delayed for several weeks in part due to resistance to that idea from senior bureaucrats in those departments, sources said.
The creation of a single agency poses more of a threat to these civil servants because they believe that only their agency approaches export controls with the correct balance of national security and economic priorities and because they are personally invested in the status quo in terms of careers.” |
