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 Operations
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.
Sanctions List Operations
OFAC's August 28 two-record action needs separate match decisions
OFAC's August 28, 2026 action names one individual with two program tags and a link to Bank Melli Iran, plus a separately named trading company under a different tag. A list update needs two identity and transaction dispositions; shared release date, geography, or headline cannot merge the records or supply an unstated ownership finding.
Work-List Operations
SAP GTS work lists need function-specific state lineage
SAP says Global Trade Services supports sanctioned-party screening across sales, finance, human resources, procurement, and distribution, with blocked documents collected in work lists. The operational question is whether every work-list entry preserves its originating business function, document identity, version, state, and later change without collapsing unlike records into one generic case.
Cross-Border Operations
Hurricane modular DDP needs provider-by-provider receipts
Hurricane Commerce presents its Global Trade Ecosystem as an integrated, modular Delivered Duty Paid service that can retain a customer's transport, payment, clearance, IOSS, broker, and other providers. Each selected service still needs a named responsibility, handoff, evidence state, exception route, and execution receipt for every consignment.
Trade Operations
Avalara restriction checks need product-context proof
Avalara presents tariff classification, landed-cost calculation, and trade-restrictions management within its cross-border offering. A restriction result is only defensible when the exact product, destination, parties, use, rule source, effective version, exception, and shipment decision remain reconstructable.
Screening Operations
Descartes screens transaction parties in real time—but a name match is not a release decision
Descartes says its denied-parties product can screen transaction parties against government lists in real time or in batch. A candidate match still needs identity, list, ownership, transaction, license, and escalation review before a hold or release decision.
Customs Operations
Nabu prepares customs declarations—but ready to submit is not authority to file
Automated preparation can turn shipment data into a declaration draft while leaving classification, valuation, admissibility, filer authority, submission, and customs response separately accountable.
Customs Operations
CargoWise connects customs filings, classification, and screening—but each remains a separate control
One customs platform can coordinate declarations, tariff data, and denied-party checks without making a completed filing proof that the goods were correctly classified or every party was cleared.
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.
Sanctions Operations
The EU Sanctions Map is orientation—not a legal decision record
The map organizes regimes, measures, lists, guidance, court rulings, and legal-act links for quick access. Its own disclaimer says the information is not a basis for decisions with legal implications and that only acts published in the EU Official Journal are authentic and produce legal effects.
Sanctions Operations
OFAC program pages organize authorities—not one global sanctions rule
OFAC administers multiple sanctions programs that can be comprehensive or selective. A country label, list hit, or program-page link is a starting point for scoped review—not a universal statement about every transaction.
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.