QUESTION: Is denied party screening required when shipping firearms domestically within the United States? ************** Answers: Denied party screening is NOT a legal requirement. The legal requirement is to “Know Your Customer” and not to do business with bad people or in bad places. However, it is difficult to know if someone is a “bad” […]
QUESTION: I work for medical device company where the company plans on delivering the medical devices direct to patients. My question is in regards to denied party screening. I have heard during BIS meetings that at the retail level the purchase should be screened. At present our agreements with retailers and distributors with export control […]
QUESTION: Does anyone from the trade community screen ocean vessels and carriers? Our products are not controlled by any jurisdiction, and these are exported to non-sanctioned destinations. *********** Answers: It is a good practice to screen the ocean vessel carriers. *********** If you are not booking the cargo, you should screen vessels. Conference carriers are […]
QUESTION: We have different, related companies registered under the laws of a few different countries that either manufacture and sell their own product or distribute our US made product for us. These entities, inclusive of our US registered company, are all part of a larger US corporation. Our US registered company conducts screenings on […]
QUESTION: Is it possible for a company to be penalized for doing business with a denied party by more than one government agency, such as BIS and OFAC and State Department? (Can one company be fined from multiple agencies for the same infraction? Ex: I send something to North Korea. BIS fines me, OFAC fines […]
QUESTION: I am interested to know what best practice is regarding DPL screenings. 1) How often should we conduct the screening? 2) Some members of my procurement team advise that if we screen every transaction at time of shipment it slows the shipment down. If this is an automated process that takes merely seconds […]
QUESTION: When you do get a hit from screening for denied parties does anyone in the membership have a boiler plate request for information to confirm the hit and the person being screened are not one in the same? I have been getting hits here and there and when I ask our sales rep to […]
QUESTION: The company is organized into separate business units. Some business unit corporate/headquarters are in the United States, but most are in Europe. This question is geared towards the US corporate office. In performing a screening for potential new business outside of the United States it was found that the purchaser is listed on […]
QUESTION: Would any of the members have a basic Denied Party Screening presentation to share ? Very basic and high level would be fine. =========== Answer: Hello, please find attached a basic presentation on denied party screening. http://www.icpainc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20160928_N.-Richards-Bentley_EU_Export_Controls_Conference_Screening_Speech_FINAL.pdf ========== We don’t have a lot of export volume, so I like to keep it short. This […]
Question: One of our European affiliates has a customer located in Spain that shares the same name/nationality as a person on Interpol’s list. The Interpol information indicates the person is wanted in the Dominican Republic. We confirmed this person is not shown on either the US or UK “Consolidated Lists” as a denied party, […]
Question: Our company subscribes to and uses automated screening software. I had a match for the first time today because the company I screened was on a list called the Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System’s Iran/Sudan Prohibited Companies Lists. Does anyone know if this list is a concern for exporters? Any advice on how should […]
Question: I would the opinion of the Export trade community on the below situation to check my sanity / interpretation of regulation. Company A in on the Entity List and OFAC. They own machines that are enumerated on the CCL.My company feels that if a “unrelated” service Company B purchase parts for these machines owned by company […]
