Export Scope
EAR de minimis needs a calculation ledger
Calculate EAR de minimis from destination-controlled U.S. content over the foreign item's fair-market value. Check zero-threshold rules and FDP scope separately.
Coverage desk
Export controls
Source-backed reporting and analysis connected to the companies, capabilities, authorities, and operating domains it affects.
Export Operations
BIS Part 758 keeps EEI filing separate from export authority
EAR Part 758 describes Electronic Export Information filed through the Automated Export System as a statement to the U.S. government about an export transaction, including item and authority fields when required. A filed or accepted EEI record needs to reconcile to the actual shipment and license basis; the filing itself does not grant export authority.
Payment Screening Controls
ComplyAdvantage joint cases need risk-by-risk disposition
ComplyAdvantage says one payment case can present alerts involving parties, reference text, and bank identifiers in a joint analyst view. A release or rejection remains defensible only when every consequential risk is tied to its message field, source profile, evidence, reviewer disposition, and payment-level decision.
Securities Sanctions Controls
Dow Jones securities screening needs two decision records
Dow Jones describes sanctions data and screening for securities and related ownership risk. A defensible control keeps the pre-trade authorization separate from the post-trade monitoring and disposition record, with the exact instrument, issuer, ownership link, authority version, account, transaction, reviewer, and action preserved at each point.
Sanctions and Financial Controls
Treasury's August 28 actions need separate control clocks
Treasury announced two different August 28 actions: OFAC added Reza Mohammad Taeedi and Kameng Trading Limited to the SDN List, while FinCEN proposed a special measure concerning Banque Misr UAE. The designations create current sanctions consequences; the FinCEN measure remains a proposal with its own comment and rulemaking clock.
Antiboycott Controls
An EAR antiboycott request needs separate action and reporting
BIS's electronic Export Administration Regulations resource includes Part 760's prohibitions, exceptions, evasion rule, reporting requirements, and interpretations. A boycott-related term cannot be governed as one generic document flag: the exact request, recipient role, response, action, exception analysis, and reporting disposition need separate, traceable records.
Classification Controls
ONESOURCE joins screening and customs data—but an HS code is not an export-control classification
Thomson Reuters presents ONESOURCE Global Trade as worldwide import-export compliance software with maintained regulatory information, customs tools, screening, and analytics. Reusing product data can reduce duplicate work, but a customs tariff code does not determine an export-control classification, license requirement, end-use restriction, or release decision.
Export Controls
The UK Export Control Order reaches technology and trade—not only goods at the border
The Export Control Order 2008 addresses exports, technology transfers, technical assistance, trade controls, and transit. A customs shipment screen cannot represent the whole decision surface.
Multilateral Controls
Wassenaar control lists do not authorize a transaction
The Arrangement publishes a current dual-use and munitions reference, but says implementation and entry into effect vary by participating state—leaving classification, jurisdiction, end use, parties, and authorization to the applicable national process.
Export Controls
ITAR registration is a precondition—not an export authorization
Part 122 uses registration to identify participants in covered defense-trade activity, while Part 123 separately requires prior approval for exports or temporary imports unless an exemption applies.
Export controls
EAR Part 732 makes export review a sequence, not a score
BIS Part 732 organizes EAR review as ordered transaction questions, not one screen. Systems must preserve classification, party, end-use, authorization, and records.