Handouts from BIS' 2011 Update Conference Available
During the Bureau of Industry and Security’s 2011 Update Conference on July 19-21, 2011, various officials from BIS, the Census Bureau, the State Department, and other agencies gave presentations on numerous topics.
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BIS has made available on its Website many of the presentations from the Update 2011 Conference. The following are the presentation titles, as well as the topics covered, for each of the available handouts:
Anatomy of an Investigation -- BIS’ Office of Export Enforcement’s enforcement priorities, types of penalties, and examples of OEE investigations.
Commodity Jurisdiction, State or Commerce -- a step-by-step comparison of the commodity jurisdiction (CJ) and commodity classification processes, best practices for CJ applications, and an overview of the Defense Technology Security Administration.
Deemed Exports and I-129 Visa -- key compliance issues for deemed exports, FY 2010 statistics for deemed export applications, and an explanation of Part 6 of Form I-129.
Encryption Forum -- implementation of June 25, 2010 encryption interim final rule, new developments for encryption, and what’s coming up for encryption (including the BIS final rule).
End-Use Checks -- an overview of end-use checks, including types of end-use checks, who performs end-use checks, types of end-use monitoring for defense exports, basic warning flags, and case studies.
Export Control Officer Country Briefing -- briefings from Regional Export Control Officers in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, and India and the role of the Export Control Officer.
Export Enforcement Panel -- a series of export enforcement-related questions.
Export Management and Compliance Workshop -- description of the Export Management Compliance Division, various compliance tools, and best practices.
Interagency Panel -- implementing export control reform -- BIS’ recent USML-CCL proposed rule, DDTC licensing statistics, overview of the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative, and ongoing export control reform actions.
License Exception Strategic Trade Authorization -- overview of BIS’ June 16, 2011 final rule on License Exception STA, including limitations, conditions, consignee statement, and examples.
Missile Technology Policy and Licensing Issues and Trends -- discussion of list-based controls, MT controls, “catch all” controls, missile end-use controls, Entity List, Missile Technology Control Regime and Missile Technology Export Control reviews,
National Export Initiative -- the importance of exporting, the President’s Export Council and Export Promotion Cabinet, U.S. government export assistance services, and 2011 National Export Strategy priorities.
Regulatory Update -- regulatory initiatives since BIS Update 2010, including Executive Order 13563 on improving regulation and regulatory review, Entity List revisions, USML-CCL proposed rule, publicly available mass market encryption software, Wassenaar Arrangement 2010, high performance computers, etc.
Sanctions -- 2011 sanctions developments for Iran, Libya, Sudan, Syria and overview of the Department of Defense’s role in export controls.
What’s Driving Changes to the AES Regulations -- overview of Census’ proposed rule to revise the Foreign Trade Regulations and major changes for post-departure filing, household goods, used self-propelled vehicles, additional/required data elements, and AESDirect Shipment Manager.
BIS presentations available here