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Environment, 10e
Chapter 13
Export Controls and Sanctions
• Deemed Exports
• Communication or transfer by an American
citizen of technology, technical data, software,
encryption technology, etc., to a foreign
national
• Application of the law is not always easy,
especially if foreign nationals work within the
same company but live in different countries
• Export Licensing
• U.S. exporters are responsible for determining
if an export license is required
• Unlawful to release items to End Users:
• Entities
• Specially designated nationals/blocked
• Unverified firms
• Denied persons
• Debarred parties
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Export Controls On Commercial and Dual-Use
Goods and Technologies (Slide 7 of 12)
• Extraterritorial Jurisdiction of
Export Control Laws
• Should a nation be able to extend the power
of its export control laws (jurisdiction) over its
goods and technology once they have left its
territory?
• Crisis over Soviet Natural Gas Pipeline to
Europe
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Goods and Technologies (Slide 10 of 12)
• Antiboycott Provisions
• Illegal to comply with boycott imposed by a
foreign country against a country that is
friendly to the U.S.
• See the Briggs and Stratton Corp. v. Baldridge
case: U.S. company thought by saying it had no
business with Israel, it would not be violating
the law; the court found the company had
violated the law
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