U.S. Export Compliance for non-U.S. Companies - IIEI-060

Course Description: This six-week course explores export controls of the United States from a need-to-know informative basis, focusing on the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Export Administration Regulations, and Office of Foreign Assets Control. Designed for management personnel in non-U.S. companies, students will study the potential impact of the regulations upon their business activities and plans, both in terms of purchasing controlled U.S. components, materials, and other articles, and in being a member of the supply chain for controlled articles of the United States.

Prerequisite: None

Course Credit: 3 Credit Hours

Major Course Topics & Course Outcomes

As a result of the group and individual activities included in this course, the student will acquire the following knowledge and skills that can be applied to the workplace: 

Introduction to Export Compliance

• Analyze the principles of export compliance and their reasons for existence; how they can be important to the foreign business plan; how U.S. controls can be different from those of other countries?
• Assess U.S. controls for tangibles versus data, services, and technology.
• Distinguish key elements of the contract
• Differentiate between ITAR-controlled agreements and other agreements

Unilateral, Bilateral, and Multilateral Controls

• Differentiate among types of control agreements
• Appraise relationships among countries as allies or non-allies, and stability or instability of relationships
• Evaluate cooperation levels among agreement signatories in export compliance

Examples of Multilateral Agreements

• Assess the Australia Group agreement
• Discuss the impact of the Wassenaar Arrangement

The EAR (Export Administration Regulations) and the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations)

• Distinguish between the EAR and the ITAR

Introduction to the EAR (Export Administration Regulations)

• Relate the use of the Commerce Control List and Country Chart to each other
• Assess the use of EAR 99
• Interpret the use of exceptions for EAR-controlled exports

Introduction to the ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations)

• Establish when an article is ITAR-controlled using the U.S. Munitions List
• Interpret the use of exemptions for ITAR-controlled exports

The EAR in Practice

• Appraise the principle of the Ten General Prohibitions in U.S. export controls
• Analyze the need for verifications and statements in purchasing U.S. controlled articles

The ITAR in Practice

• Integrating the regulations on brokers into the business plan

Applying EAR and ITAR Controls in non-U.S. Territory.

• Decide on the application of controls on re-exports of articles
• Appraise the application of controls on manufactured articles of controlled U.S. components or materials
• Interpret the application of controls on data, technology, and other intangibles.

Introduction to the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC)

• Distinguish the role of OFAC sanctions from other export controls, and their impact

Restrictive Lists

• Differentiate among U.S. export control lists

Other Agencies

• Anticipate the role of "other agencies" in U.S. export controls

 

Course Materials:

 There is no textbook for this course. All material for this course is provided in the online classroom to registered students.