TRADE CONTROLSBRIEF

Authority, evidence, and operating consequence across borders.

Decision domains

Control and transaction domains

The domain library organizes consequences that can share a system but require different evidence, expertise, owners, and decision criteria. It prevents one synthetic score from concealing materially different questions.

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Jurisdiction, nexus, and scope

The threshold analysis that determines which export-control, sanctions, customs, and related trade-control regimes may apply to an item, technology, service, party, transaction, or activity. Scope can turn on item origin, content, direct-product rules, location, citizenship, conduct, ownership, facilitation, or another legally relevant connection.

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Tariff and customs classification

The assignment and maintenance of Harmonized System and national tariff codes used for customs declarations, duty treatment, trade statistics, admissibility, and related border requirements. This is distinct from export-control classification such as ECCN or USML analysis.

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Export-control classification

The determination and controlled maintenance of classifications under export-control lists, including the U.S. Commerce Control List, U.S. Munitions List, EU dual-use list, UK strategic export control lists, and nationally implemented multilateral controls.

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Restricted-party and ownership screening

The review of customers, counterparties, intermediaries, beneficial owners, vessels, addresses, and other relevant parties against applicable sanctions, export-control, and government restriction data, including ownership or control rules that may extend restrictions beyond the named list entry.

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Licensing, exceptions, and authorizations

The determination, application, use, condition management, decrementing, reporting, and closure of licenses, license exceptions, exemptions, general licenses, agreements, permits, and other authorizations under applicable trade-control regimes.

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