US Commercial Export Controls & Embargoes (EAR) e-Seminar

US Export Controls e-Seminar includes:

Certificate of completion

• Comprehensive searchable PDF manual
• Promo code for 20% off live seminar tuition
• 12 hours of comprehensive training broken down into modules that can be started and stopped at anytime

US Commercial Export Controls & Embargoes e-Seminar Program

• Introduction to US Commercial Export Controls
• Key Control Concepts
• Comparison to International Controls
• Export Administration Regulations
• Bureau of Industry and Security

Items and Persons Subject to US Jurisdiction

• Controls on “US Persons”
• Controls on US Origin Hardware, Software and Technical Data
• Controls on Non-US Manufactured Items Containing US Origin Content
• US De Minimis Content Calculation

Export Classification and Export Determination

• ECCN Classification
• “No License Required” Determination
• License Exception Determination
• Red Flag, Denied Party and Proliferation Screening
• New China Military Catch All Rule
• License Requirements

US Embargo and EAR Special Country Controls

• Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC)
• OFAC Comprehensive Embargoed Countries: Iran, Sudan and Cuba
• OFAC Licensing and Approval Policy
• EAR Special Country Controls: Syria, North Korea
• Control Status of Libya, Iraq and Palestine
• Specially Designated Nationals

EAR Antiboycott Regulations

• Introduction
• Relationship to Arab League Boycott on Israel and other Boycotts
• Applicability to Transactions Outside the US
• Prohibitions and Exceptions
• Reporting Requirements

Export Enforcement

• How US Rules are Enforced Outside the US
• Corporate and Personal Fines and Penalties
• Enforcement Case Studies
• Preventing Violations

Compliance Programs

• Considerations for Developing a Corporate Export Compliance Program
• Types of Procedural Approaches
• US Government Compliance Program Recommendations

Technical Data Considerations

• Controls on Physical and Intangible Data
• Deemed Exports and Reexports
• Third Country National Considerations
• Emailed Data, Server Access and Downloads

John Black
Principal - BSG Consulting

John R. Black has been involved in US export and trade control matters since 1984. He advises a wide range of US and foreign companies, ranging in size from Fortune 10 to small companies in nearly every industrial sector. He also serves as an expert export control adviser to several major US law firms and their clients, and has advised several foreign governments on US export control matters. Within the export compliance field, he has earned a reputation as one of the leading experts on US export and trade controls.

From 1984 through 1988 he worked for the Bureau of Export Administration, where he was responsible for writing the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and interpreting the EAR for government and industry. From 1988 to the present, Mr. Black has been an export/trade control compliance consultant.

Mr. Black has developed a comprehensive knowledge of the Export Administration Regulations (including the antiboycott provisions), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and the trade control regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. He uses his depth of expertise in multiple US trade control regulations to help his clients ensure they comply with the entire scope of US trade controls.

Mr. Black has advised major US exporters on export control internal compliance policies, processes, and procedures. He has also conducted many export control compliance audits for his clients and worked with them to implement remedial measures to address deficiencies found in the audits. Mr. Black has worked with companies involved in export enforcement actions and has helped them to develop comprehensive remedial compliance policies, processes, and procedures which have successfully mitigated the penalties imposed for their violations.

Mr. Black’s comprehensive knowledge of US regulations and his understanding of practical business requirements enable him to develop targeted in-house training programs for US and foreign companies. He has been a featured speaker at well over 100 conferences and seminars on US export controls throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has also written numerous articles for various legal and export publications regarding US export/trade controls and has written several books on the subject.

Maarten Sengers
Principal - BSG Consulting

Maarten Sengers runs the Washington, DC office for BSG Consulting. Since entering the field in 1993, Mr. Sengers has worked with a variety of corporations, both large and small, in all aspects of export compliance, particularly in the IT industries. He has mastered the EAR, ITAR, and OFAC regulations. Mr. Sengers has advised numerous companies on computer, telecommunications, software, encryption, chemicals, and defense controls. He has conducted numerous export compliance audits for both US and international companies. He is fully familiar with the latest regulatory developments.

Mr. Sengers has worked as an advisor to over 100 domestic companies in diverse industries. He has also served as the interim Export Compliance Director for a major PC company and a satellite telecommunications company. His work includes classifying thousands of products to determine their export control restrictions, obtaining export licenses, and constructing and implementing related compliance procedures, and providing practical day-to-day export compliance advice.

Mr. Sengers’ experience also includes drafting and implementing internal compliance programs and auditing some of the most sophisticated export compliance programs globally. Mr. Sengers in a regular seminar speaker on export controls and a regular contributing author to several export compliance publications. He received his Juris Doctor from the College of William & Mary and is admitted to the New York, Washington DC, and Maryland bars.