Export Compliance Documentation - IIEI-311

Course Description: This six-week course provides students with a detailed understanding of documentary, and regulatory requirements and recommendations for U. S. Export documentation for export transactions and related activities including export licenses/applications and required supporting forms, certifications and other information, export shipping, item classification, customer screening and required recordkeeping. Taken from the perspective of the clerical need to understand all aspects of the documentation and reporting processes, this hands-on practical course is intended to develop a working knowledge of the vast array of regulatory forms and documents and their use as used to comply with EAR, ITAR, OFAC and FTSR regulations.

The content of this course provides the knowledge necessary to successfully pass the documentation section of the examination for Certified U. S. Export Compliance Officer. ®

Prerequisite: Recommended, but not required. Three years relevant industry experience, or one-year relevant industry experience and IIEI-307, Understanding the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) or IIEI-306, Understanding the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

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 Documentation

• Integrate export compliance documentation requirements into the export business model.
• Compose export filing documentation.
• Differentiate among export compliance documentation and other documentation prepared for an export transaction. 

BIS Export Licenses

• Establish the need for a BIS export license.
• Construct a BIS export license application. 

DDTC Export Licenses

• Establish the need for a DDTC export license.
• Construct a DDTC export license application.

Customer Screening Methodology

• Distinguish among and utilize Customer Screening Lists
• Asses Red Flags and Diversion Risk Screening
• Antiboycott Compliance Screen
• Integrate End-User and End-Use Non-Proliferation Screening into export compliance.
• Construct Government and Military End-User Screening methods.

Integrating government procedures for export compliance, other than licensing, with the export business model.

• Integrate Product Classification Documentation into export compliance methods.
• Control Lists
• Initiate Commodity Jurisdiction Requests (CJs) under the ITAR.
• Initiate Classification Requests under the EAR.
• Determine the applicability of the Wassenaar Arrangement to export compliance.
• Integrate Unilateral Controls into export compliance.

Export Compliance Recordkeeping

• Structure documentation within the recordkeeping parameters of the ITAR and the EAR

Course Materials:

There is one package of course materials for this course. It is included in the online classroom for registered students.

Selected Readings Packet - Export Compliance

Selected readings online.