Wednesday, November 7, 2012 1:00PM EST Effective export compliance plans require implementing procedures appropriate to your company’s product line and business model. Join us for a discussion on the ways to create a written plan which will result in a useful tool for your company’s employees instead of a dusty binder on a bookshelf. ECTI’s export compliance webinar will focus on the best ways to attack the problem of develop...

“Interpreting Iranian Sanctions Provisions: Connecting the new with the old” Webinar Webinar Instructor: Amanda DeBusk Wednesday, May 30 1:00 PM EDT U.S. concerns about Iran’s nuclear program have driven recent efforts to increase the sanctions placed on Iran. The comprehensive Iranian sanctions of 2010 were followed by new sanctions at the end of 2011. The February 5, 2012 Executive Order and February 27th implementing regul...

US-UK Treaty Relaxes ITAR--Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? On April 13, 2012, the US finally relaxed US ITAR controls on the UK. The big question is whether this helps you, and right now that is a tough question to answer. Some who have tried to read the new rules have already decided to ignore the complicated relaxation and continue to get licenses and agreements. The fact is a lot of ITAR controls remain and many companies will continue...

Export Controls and Cloud Computing: Is the sky really falling? The emergence of “cloud computing” services has people in the export compliance community scratching their heads over the export control implications for service providers and users, but are the issues really new? This webinar will break down the issues in light of current US Government rules. Topics to be covered: What working definition of Cloud Computing should be u...

It is a routine event -- one which happens thousands of times a day across the United States. A foreign national begins work at a US company as an engineer, researcher or scientist. The location could be a technology firm in Santa Clara, a defense contractor in St. Louis or an aerospace company in Tampa, but the question is the same -- is an export control violation imminent? And let's not limit ourselves to employees. The same question may be...

Now you can learn at your own pace, when you have time from your desktop...at your home office or at work. We have adapted our 2 day comprehensive US Export Controls live seminar into an e-Seminar. The training is on a USB drive so you can take it wherever you need to go, no internet access required! e-Seminars combine videos of our highly respected experts John Black and Maarten Sengers alongside the actual power point presentations shown at...

Now you can learn at your own pace, when you have time from your desktop...at your home office or at work. We have adapted our 2 day comprehensive Defense Trade Controls live seminar into an e-Seminar. The training is on a USB drive so you can take it wherever you need to go, no internet access required! e-Seminars combine videos of our highly respected experts John Black and Maarten Sengers alongside the actual power point presentations show...

Doing disclosures can be costly both in man hours and legal fees and usually result in no monetary penalties. Find out how to establish a policy on disclosures with an eye toward cost savings. Even the most compliant companies can make mistakes and whether or not to file “voluntary disclosures” relating to these errors is often a difficult decision. Companies have options when dealing with violations and should have a policy on wha...

Get Your Jurisdiction Right, Or Else! USML vs. CCL Jurisdiction Advanced Analysis One of the most critical export compliance issues is determining whether a product or technology is subject to the jurisdiction of the US Munitions List or the Commerce Control List. If you get that decision wrong, just about everything else you do related to exporting or reexporting the item will likely not comply with the applicable regulations. The ITAR does n...

Tech Data Export Controls 2011 Update--There Are No Easy Answers Doing business in 2011 while trying to comply with export control rules largely crafted 20-30+ years ago is difficult, needless to say. Despite government adjustments to certain aspects of the technical data export control rules, export compliance challenges are growing and changing at a pace far faster than the government changes the export control rules. 100% compliance is impo...