Does your company export to China? Does your product line include technology and/or sophisticated hardware or machinery? If so, make sure you are complying with current export regulations regarding dual use items to China.

China Law Blog has a post on a free webinar put on by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the China Business Information Center:

The webinar will take place on September 14, from 1:15 p.m. through 2:00 p.m., EDT. It will be led by Matthew S. Borman, Acting Assistant Secretary, responsible for implementing the Bureau of Industry and Security’s controls on the export of dual-use items for national security, foreign policy, nonproliferation, and short supply reasons and will focus on the following:

-The Scope of the proposed amendments
-Revision to the China licensing review policy for national security controlled items
-Understanding the proposed military end-use control
-New authorization for Validated End-Users
-New exporter requirements to obtain End-User certificates.

For those of you who don’t know, “dual use” items are:

…..items that have both commercial and military or proliferation applications

You can access the handy “Export Control Basics” from the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security website here. It’s a simple guide to the basics of export license controls.

This is an especially important topic for those companies with overseas locations in addition to the U.S. It is imperative that your overseas offices and employees are aware of U.S. export controls and what can and can not be exported to certain countries without a license. I have seen companies get into very serious trouble with the Bureau of Industry and Security because their overseas office unknowingly - and in some cases very knowingly - exported controlled items to the wrong country.

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