US Launches 'Centralized' Export License Tracker Tool
The U.S. launched a new export licensing platform that allows users to track the progress of applications submitted to both the State and Commerce departments, which it said will “simplify export control processes, enhance compliance, and provide centralized resources for industry users.”
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The site includes a new search tool that allows users to check the status of license cases, bringing together the “functionality previously provided” by the Pentagon’s ELISA (Export Licensing Information System Advisor) and Commerce’s STELA (System for Tracking Export License Applications) “into a single, user-friendly platform,” according to a set of FAQs. While the tool is meant to fully replace ELISA, the U.S. said it will complement the State Department’s Defense Export Control and Compliance System and Commerce’s SNAP-R, the systems that allow users to submit and track export license applications, commodity classification requests, reexport license applications and more for each agency.
The new platform, USxports, managed by the State Department in collaboration with Commerce, was created to implement President Donald Trump’s April executive order aimed at reducing regulatory restrictions around sales of weapons and other military items to U.S. partners (see 2504100009). That order directed U.S. agencies to develop a single electronic system to track all Direct Commercial Sale export license requests.
A video on the homepage explains how to navigate the site, including how to search for the status of applications by case number. Users can search for multiple cases at once.
Jeffrey Trettin, the State Department’s acting division chief of compliance and civil enforcement, said on LinkedIn that this “unified interface enhances transparency in the export adjudication process, providing the defense industrial base and other users with greater visibility into the status of their applications.”
The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls said the new tool "promotes efficiency across the defense export lifecycle, reducing administrative burdens and enabling the defense industrial base and other users to focus on advancing American security and prosperity by supporting defense partners."