Archive for the ‘Commerce Dept’ Category
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 by Holly Thorne
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published a new set of “best practices” to help secure trade through transshipment hubs, or to any intermediate country before being shipped to the country of ultimate destination. Transshipment has logistical benefits, but also can be used illegally to disguise the actual country of ultimate destination.
BIS is encouraging industry to use the following best practices to avoid unlawful diversion:
- Pay heightened attention to BIS’s Red Flag Indicators and communicate red flag concerns internally.
- Seek to utilize only those trade facilitators and freight forwarders that administer sound export control management and compliance programs that include transshipment trade best practices.
- Obtain detailed information on the credentials of foreign customers to assess diversion risk.
- For routed transactions, establish and maintain a trusted relationship with parties to mitigate risks.
- Communicate export control classification and destination information to end-users and consignees on government and commercial export documentation.
- Provide the ECCN or the EAR99 classification to freight forwarders for all export transactions and report the classifications in the Automated Export System (AES), if applicable.
- Use information technology to the maximum extent feasible to augment “know your customer” and other due-diligence measures in combating the threats of diversion and increase confidence that shipments will reach authorized end-users for authorized end-uses.
The full list of Best Practices can be found here
Tags: best practices, unlawful diversion
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011 by Danielle McClellan
| Basic Purpose
Responsible for the administration of customer service issues, customer communications and customer requests and orders on a daily basis. Maintain and ensure integrity of all customer data in the business systems, including customer property, orders and associated dollars. Assure that all customer requests for quotes are properly managed in the PTS system. Responsible for maintaining and ensuring accurate backlog, orders, and market segmentation data. |
| Position Specification |
Education/Experience
- An Associates or Bachelors degree with a minimum of 5 years related industry work experience.
- Solid understanding of military and commercial export compliance regulations.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively and professionally communicate with all levels in the organization, vendors and customers.
- Understanding of pricing models.
- Proven negotiation skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong computer skills with working knowledge of MS Office and Access.
- Proven team-work capabilities and experience.
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Additional Requirements
- Understanding of the Fourth Shift or Syteline ERP system.
- Able to handle and resolve customer complaints and problems and escalate when required.
- Willing and able to develop long-term relationships internally and externally.
- Attention to detail.
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| Functional Scope
The Customer Service Representative provides support to both the internal and external customers of the company. This position plays an active role in the maintenance and management of the various business systems. Success in this role will require a proactive approach and the ability to create and implement process improvements to ensure that the systems and processes are as robust as possible to provide superior service to the customers.
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| Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for the accurate and timely management of all sales order activity.
- Ensure all sales data is accurate and complete in order to maintain order, market and backlog reporting integrity including schedule and associated dollars.
- Responsible for raising export compliance concerns to the DECA or DECA backup when required.
- Serves as a central point of contact for customer inquiries. Provides customers with updated order and delivery status.
- Responsible for inputting data (RFQs, pricing, status, etc) into the PTS (Proposal Tracking System) and ensuring that all data is accurate and complete and up to date.
- Provides engineering with request for quote information required to initiate estimating process.
- Performs contract review and order acceptance process. Controls and maintains master contracts/ purchase order files.
- Assists with the configuration control process.
- Performs the EDI transaction conversion to the business system. Tracks changes in delivery dates, prices and handles terminations.
- Maintains customer information in the various business systems.
- Responsible for disseminating Terms and Conditions, special shipping instructions, configuration changes and quality requirements throughout the organization.
- Assists accounting with invoicing and collection issues.
- Review Customer Scorecards.
- Perform other duties as required by the business and as instructed by supervisor.
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| Essential Functions of Position
Interpersonal Skills
- Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels of personnel within the organization and the customer.
- Must be able to communicate orally and/or in writing as to work requirements, work in progress, and/or work completion
- Must be able to follow complex instructions and/or directions. May require ability to decide on a course/sequence of action
Schedule and Planning
- Must be able to schedule and organize time effectively to satisfactorily complete assigned tasks and functions.
Physical Effort
- Minimal physical effort
- May be required to travel occasionally to customer premises or corporate office.
- Operate personal computer.
Working Conditions
- Primarily work in office areas with exposure to shop floor.
- Generally responsible for the safety and clean up of own work area.
Disclaimer
- The above information on this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibility and qualification required of employees assigned to this job.
Contact Pamela R. Daly regarding this position at:
Barnes Aerospace
169 Kennedy Rd
Windsor, CT 06095
P: 860-687-5270
F: 401-228-0823
pdaly@barnesaero.com
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Posted in BIS, Commerce Dept, DDTC, Defense Trade Controls, EAR, Export License, Jobs/Careers, Jobs/Careers, OFAC, Sanctions, State Dept, State Dept, USA Regulations | Comments Off
Monday, April 4th, 2011 by John Black
The risks of fines of hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of dollars for violations make export compliance important. The complicated, arcane, and voluminous regulations that impose incredible burdens on your day-to-day business activities make export compliance difficult. A thorough and effective multi-level company training program makes a reasonable level of export compliance achievable.
A company needs three levels of training (more…)
Posted in BIS, CCL, Commerce Dept, Commerce Dept, DDTC, Defense Trade Controls, Defense Trade Controls, Denied & Restricted Parties, Denied & Restricted Parties, DOJ, EAR, ITAR, OFAC, State Dept, Treasury Dept | Comments Off
Friday, February 18th, 2011 by Danielle McClellan
Bruce Leeds, Esq. has been named President of the “Women in International Trade-Los Angeles” for 2011. Now you may be asking if this is a typo or some sort of oxymoron, well it’s not. The organization actually represents both men and women, but I have to wonder why they don’t just call themselves the “Men and Women in International Trade.”
Bruce says: “Although it may seem unusual that a male will be President of WIT-LA, it emphasized the point that the organization represents all the people involved in export-import trade and regulations. I look forward to working with a very talented board of directors of both genders and many different backgrounds, to create valuable programs that serve the trade community.”
Website: http://www.wit-la.org/index.asp
Posted in BIS, CCL, Commerce Dept, DDTC, Defense Trade Controls, EAR, Jobs/Careers | Comments Off
Friday, February 18th, 2011 by John Black
As many of you know a new Form I-129 requirement forces companies requesting a work visa to certify that they do not have any technology that requires an export license for the potential employee, or that they either have an export license or procedures to prevent access to export license-required technology. (more…)
Posted in BIS, Commerce Dept, Commerce Dept, DDTC, Deemed Export, EAR, Export License, Jobs/Careers, State Dept, State Dept | Comments Off
Friday, February 18th, 2011 by Danielle McClellan
Effective January 18, 2011 BIS added CSMC Technologies Corporation to the validated end-users program in the People’s Republic of China. In a nutshell the program allows certain items to be exported, reexported, or transferred (in-country) to approved companies and in this case 3 CSMC facilities.
BIS has also revised the validated end-user authorization for Advanced Micro Devices China, Inc. by updating the list of the company’s approved buildings and the descriptions of items that are eligible for export, reexport, or in-country transfer to AMD.
Posted in BIS, CCL, China, Commerce Dept, EAR, Export License | Comments Off
Friday, February 18th, 2011 by John Black
Was I dreaming when I read various export control pundits talking about the significance of the PPG enforcement case (reported above) because the US went after a company in China or because there was this indirect issue or that indirect issue? Sorry, this is not new. The new importance and “sweeping significance” of this is way over-rated. It appears some experts are attempting to distort the importance to make it a broader, scary issue. The issue is they got a license denied and shipped anyway. That has always been at the top of my personal list of violations not to commit.
Shipping after a license is denied is willful and knowing and intentional and criminal, and, by the way, stupid. Not only did they know a license was required, they knew the USG would deny the license. People could have gone to jail and companies could have been added to the denial list. Not a mistake or accident here but intentionally violating the regulations. Add that to nuclear facility, entity list, China and Pakistan, and you have a big ole stew of aggravating factors
Perhaps I should apologize for saying the violation was stupid. My mother always says it is rude to say “stupid.” OK, the violation demonstrates a lack of sound judgment and thought and illustrated behavior based greed. I just assumed that everybody knows that if BIS denies your license application, there is a good chance BIS will watch your company closely because BIS suspects your company will ship anyway. You know why BIS does that? Because idiotic (my mother doesn’t read this stuff) companies ship anyway when their license is denied. (more…)
Posted in BIS, CCL, China, Commerce Dept, Export License, Pakistan, Violations & Fines | Comments Off
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 by Danielle McClellan
BIS is proposing to add a new license exception which would allow exports, reexports and transfers of specific items to destinations of little risk without having to obtain a license. Now this doesn’t mean that the export is free and clear of any “time consuming” work for exporters, notification to BIS, destination control statements and consignee statements will be required for this exception. (more…)
Posted in BIS, CCL, Commerce Dept, Export License | Comments Off
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 by Danielle McClellan
Beginning December 22, 2010 Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Kevin Wolfe, will be providing free teleconferences every Wednesday through February 2, 2011 from 2:00 pm – 4:00pm EST to discuss Commerce’s proposed rules related to the Administration’s effort to reform the export control system.
The free conferences are limited to 100 people per session; to participate you must dial in at 866-917-2713; participant code: 4136642. You may also submit questions in advance of the training to be answered during the teleconference, submit your questions to oesdseminar@bis.doc.gov
Information available at: http://www.bis.doc.gov/news/2010/teleconference_opportunity_wolf.htm
Posted in BIS, CCL, Commerce Dept, DDTC, Defense Trade Controls, EAR, ITAR, State Dept, USA Regulations | Comments Off
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 by Danielle McClellan
BIS is currently considering an online registration process which would require users to obtain an account to submit licenses electronically through SNAP-R. Right now users must register to use SNAP-R by obtaining a pin via a paper or faxed form which takes a number of days/weeks to process. The new system would create “filing entities” which would be individuals/companies who can submit applications; “individual users” would be those who act of behalf of filing entities and “account administrators” would be at least one “filing entity” that would have the ability to add/remove individual users and other administrative options. This would greatly decrease the amount of time it takes to make these changes since the only way to make changes is via mail or fax at this time.
BIS wants to make this process entirely online, and is seeking comments by January 24, 2011.
Federal Register: http://www.bis.doc.gov/news/2010/fr_11232010.pdf
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