SUGGESTED PREREQUISITE:  Should have attended the Export Operations and Procedures Workshop or have a basic understanding of the Export process and the Schedule B or HTS.

The 1-day Agenda for the U.S. Export Controls (EAR Essential) includes:

8:00am – 8:30am

• Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am – 4:30pm

WELCOME

INTRODUCTIONS

RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMPLIANCE

• Why comply

• Who is responsible

• Role of the Customs Broker and Freight Forwarder

• Purpose for controls

• Agencies controlling exports

DEVELOPING AN EXPORT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Structure

• Elements

• Responsible parties

• Keeping current

OVERVIEW OF THE EAR & HISTORY OF CONTROLS

HISTORY

• Scope

• Structure

THE NATIONAL EXPORT INITATIVE (NEI) & EXPORT CONTROL REFORMS (ECR)

• What are they

• What has taken place

• How does this affect the EAR

• Relationship between The ITAR and EAR

EMBARGOED COUNTRIES

• General embargoes

• Arms Embargoes

• UN and other sanctions
  

OTHER RELATED EXPORT CONTROLS

• U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

• Security issues

• Preparatory controls

KNOWING YOUR CUSTOMER AND ALL PARTIES TO THE TRANSACTION

• Screening of participants in the transaction

• Gathering information

• Red Flags

• Reasonable care

 DEFINITIONS

• Technical  data

• Services

• U.S.

• Person

• U.S. Person

• Non-U.S. Person

HOW CAN EXPORTS TAKE PLACE

• What is an export

• How can exports take place

• What is a re-export

 TYPES OF EXPORT CONTROLS

• Unilateral

• Multilateral

• Regimes

• Country Groups

THE FIVE BASIC QUESTIONS

• Understanding how to apply them

• What to do if a question arises

GENERAL PROHIBITIONS

• What are they

• How do the affect your exports

SPECIAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

• The Wassenaar Arrangement

• Special chemical reporting

RESTRICTED TRADE PRACTICES AND BOYCOTTS

• Origin

• Purpose

• Identifying what is acceptable

• Identifying what is not acceptable

• Reporting

ELECTRONIC EXPORT INFORMATION (EEI)

AES

• Responsibility for reporting

• When must you file

• Filing elements

EXPORT CONTROL CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS (ECCN)

• Purpose

• Structure

• Changes under Export Control Reform, new 600 series

• Determining your ECCN

DETERMINING IF A LICENSE IS REQUIRED

• Reasons for control 

• Use of the country chart

• What if there are multiple controls          

EXCEPTIONS

• Types of exceptions

• How to use them to your advantage

LICENSE APPLICATIONS AND CLASSIFICATION REQUESTS

• What is SNAP-R

• Licenses and other requests

VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES AND ADMINISTATIVE PROCEDURES

• Self Disclosure

• Financial

• Criminal

• Other

RECORD KEEPING

• What  records are to be kept

• For how long

• In what form

FUTURE CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THE EAR

CONCLUSION