Recordkeeping Under the ITAR Webinar

This event qualifies for NCBFAA NEI MES/CES 1.5

In today's globalized business landscape, adherence to export compliance is paramount, and meticulous recordkeeping plays a pivotal role in ensuring regulatory compliance. Join former regulators Candace Goforth and Tony Dearth as they review the recordkeeping requirements of the ITAR and provide benchmarking information and tips on establishing a robust recordkeeping infrastructure for U.S. and non-U.S. entities of any size.

The program will cover recordkeeping requirements related to:

Non-transactional records such as CJs, AOs, VDs, and export compliance manuals
Permanent and temporary exports of hardware
Intangible exports such as electronic media and defense services
Authorization-specific recordkeeping for agreements and exemptions
Proviso compliance
Technology control plan requirements and records
Working with your organization and third parties to obtain records
Maintaining a “data dictionary” or “records roadmap”
Best practices and challenges

This session is ideal for anyone involved in developing or maintaining a trade compliance program, as well as functions responsible for creating or obtaining required records.

The webinar will include a time for Q&A with attendees.

Speaker and Presenter Information

Candace Goforth

A highly respected advisor and industry expert in U.S. export laws and regulations, Candace brings over 23 years of trade compliance experience to CE's Trade Advisory Services. Most recently, she was the Managing Director of Goforth Trade Advisors LLC (GTA), where she advised her U.S. and non-U.S. clients on the strategic application of U.S. import and export laws and regulations. She also wrote and developed much of Content Enablers’ trade compliance training content related to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Candace previously spent 15 years at the U.S. Department of State, advancing through the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls to become the Director for Defense Trade Controls Policy. During her government tenure, she held positions in all areas of licensing, compliance, and policy for defense trade.

Candace has audited numerous organizations for compliance with U.S. regulations and laws. These audits were voluntarily requested, as well as for organizations under consent and settlement agreements. She has developed initial trade compliance programs for U.S. and non-U.S. organizations and assisted in internal implementation through training. Candace is particularly interested in non-U.S. compliance with U.S. regulations and laws.

She is currently a member of the Defense Trade Advisory Group, which provides private sector insight to the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. She is also the Secretary/Treasurer for the Society for International Affairs (SIA), a volunteer, nonprofit, educational organization related to export and import licensing regimes of the Departments of State, Commerce, and the Treasury. A graduate of the George Washington University, Candace holds a master’s degree in security policy studies, with concentrations in international security policy, transnational security, and political psychology.

Tony Dearth

As President of Dearth Consulting, LLC, Tony provides expert advice and guidance in defense trade policy and regulatory interpretation to individual and corporate clients. He also has experience serving as a Special Compliance Officer for Department of State consent agreements.

Tony retired from federal service at the Department of State in July 2019 with nearly 16 years of experience in the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. When he departed DDTC, he was the Chief of Staff responsible for all personnel, budget, contracting, and management activities for the entire 150-member Directorate and served as the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary and Principals in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. Previously, as Director of Licensing, he was responsible for the actions of 56 personnel across four operational licensing divisions adjudicating all direct commercial sale export requests received under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.

Tony is a retiree from the U.S. Air Force, where he served for 21 years across several positions in nuclear operations, command and control, and consequence management. His focus included systems engineering, policy formulation, procedure development, and arms control inspections. He graduated from the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at Kansas State University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, and he earned a Master of Science in Systems Management in 1987 from the University of Southern California.