Author: traliance

3 Key EAR Compliance Changes You Should Be Aware Of

02/13/2017

The Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Department of State Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) continue to take Export Control Reform (ECR) steps. How do the EAR Compliance changes affect your company or university? Here are...

Export Control Considerations for University Compliance

01/11/2017

What is the first thing you think of when it comes to university faculty? Teaching. Research. While those two words are very simple, they result in multiple intersections with the U.S. Export Control Regulations. Requirements can stem from the Department...

Useful Export Compliance Links

09/30/2016

I've been thinking about all the regulatory resources out there related to export and import compliance. With so many specialty needs within the broad field of international trade compliance, it can be overwhelming to figure out which resources are truly...

The Dropped Case

10/08/2015

Avoid Export Violations By Determining If Your Technology Falls Under EAR's CCL or ITAR's USML The case of Professor Xiaoxing Xi is…well…no longer a case. Charges against the university professor have been dropped by the U.S. Department of Justice. It...

Ensure Comprehensive Oversight By University Export Control Leaders

09/14/2015

University Export Controls Enforcement And so it continues...the latest case of university export controls enforcement involves a professor from Ohio State University. This was announced just months after the preceding academic case involving a Physics Department Chair. The case has...

Food for Thought on the Latest University Enforcement Case

05/27/2015

5 Important Trade Compliance Concepts The latest university export enforcement case involves Temple University’s Physics Department Chair, Xiaoxing Xi, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen. On May 14, 2015 Xi was indicted by the U.S. District Court on four charges...

Amazing Amazing Advances In Technology And What It Means for Export Controls Requirements

03/09/2015

We're taking a pause from export controlled technology to simply highlight cool technology. (Warning: export controls requirements comes into play with at least some of these!) From jet engines to hotel service, the world witnesses amazing advances across multiple sectors...

Deemed Export Compliance And What You Need To Know

02/06/2015

Hiring Foreign Nationals And Abiding By Deemed Export Rule So much as changed and continues to evolve with the U.S. government’s Export Control Reform initiative. However, I was recently reminded that many core concepts remain the same. I was reviewing...

Catch The SRA International Conference

06/25/2014

SRA International Conference Last week I attended the SRA International Conference, Managing the Legal and Regulatory Landscape, in Washington D.C.. If you are looking for education and networking opportunities, I highly recommend this one. The relatively small forum in the...

Export Controls in University Research

05/06/2014

Export Controls at Universities I am currently attending an academic export controls conference, Impact of Export Controls on Higher Education and Scientific Institutions, held at the Georgia Institute of Technology. If you are at all responsible for export controls compliance...