Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The U.S. Government maintains several lists of entities and individuals who are subject to sanctions and generally with whom U.S. persons are prohibited from conducting business. In certain instances, companies should not make proposals to some of these entities, without prior approval from the U.S. Government.
Some examples of restricted entities will include those with connections to or ties with embargoed countries, previous export control violations and/or Involvement in certain types of activities such as:
- Global Terrorism Sanctions
- Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions
- Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Proliferators
- Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons,
- Iran, Lebanon and Libya, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria Sanctions Acts
- Scientific Studies & Research Center Employee-Syria
Conducting Denied Party Screening (DPS) is a key element of your compliance program. ECScreening.com is able to screen all parties involved in export transactions, with the purpose of exploring whether each party is eligible to participate in the transaction. DPS helps to ensure the permissibility of all export transactions.
Everyone involved in the export transaction is expected to perform their due diligence in order to ensure the permissibility of each transaction. Companies, exporters, freight forwarders, and intermediaries are all responsible for making sure each export transaction fits within the export laws, regulations, and best practices.
The following parties, as applicable, should be screened:
- Countries
- Customers
- Suppliers and subcontractors
- Consignees and intermediate consignees
- Freight forwarders
- Banks or other financial institutions
- Visitors and the organization they represent
- Sales representatives
- Consultants
- Merger and acquisition parties
- New hires/Interns
- Contract workers
- Agents
- Service providers-Vendor machine operators/cleaning services
- Contractors
- Manufacturers
- “Pay to” parties
- “Pay from” parties
- “Ship to” parties
- End users, if known
- Recipients of technical data
- Other business partners
ECScreening.com is proud to offer a thorough and up-to-date Denied Party Screening list. We not only incorporate all sanctioned lists within our DPS list, but also include relevant lists from around the globe, as well as staying abreast of current events in order to bring you the best DPS list possible.
Yes. Known aliases of people or entities will be provided within the search.Country alerts include State Department 126.1 prohibited destinations, countries subject to Commerce Department restrictions, and countries subject to OFAC sanctions programs.
Once you have a positive hit, you can save your results as a pdf and save to your hard drive. You can also save the information in “My Saved Results” and run a continuous search list in “My Search List” to demonstrate your commitment to compliance through Denied Party Screening.
The system will store the results for as long as you have a contract with ECScreening.com.
The beauty of ECScreening.com is that searches are always unlimited as long as you have an active subscription plan.
ECScreening.com utilizes various state of the art security measures to keep our data safe. Our site utilizes SSL/TLS to ensure that connections to our server are secure and the data that passes through the connections is encrypted. Servers that host ECScreening.com are subject to 24/7 network monitoring. Additionally, the servers have redundant routers for consistent connections, are backed up with an uninterrupted power supply, as well as a backup diesel generator to keep things running smoothly in case of power significant power issues.
ECS' s team of experts stays apprised daily of changes to export controls and events in order to ensure the most accurate search experience for our valued clients. Some lists require daily updating due to what they reference; others require less frequent updating and are reviewed with optimum and appropriate time sequences.
In the event there is a hit/search result for your search term, you will need to use the information button to read the results closely to determine if they apply to your export transaction. You then may find that the hit on your entry will not prohibit or otherwise affect your transaction, or else you may find that it does prohibit or otherwise affect your transaction. You can copy PDF search results into a master folder and/or save it to your “My Saved Results” file.
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o Connections to or ties with embargoed countries;
o Involvement in certain types of activities such as global terrorism sanctions regulations or narcotics trafficking;
o Previous export control violations;
Conducting Denied Party Screening (DPS) is a key element of your compliance program and must be conducted on all ITAR and EAR transactions as well as EAR99 shipments. In the last year, the Commerce Department, Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS), has issued multiple Charging Letters to companies that did not use a viable Denied Party screening tool.
With ECScreening.com, you can screen all parties involved in your export transaction, save your results, create a custom search list and perform audits. There is also a tab for Country Alerts and Program Definitions.
About Export Compliance Solutions & Consulting (ECS)
Founded in 2003, Export Compliance Solutions & Consulting (ECS) is a leading trade controls training and consulting firm renowned for its expertise in U.S export laws and regulatory requirements.Providing an agile, team-based seminar and consulting approach, ECS is comprised of former government and defense industry officials. Experts in helping companies worldwide understand the complexities of the ITAR and EAR, the firm’s mission is to help clients build internal competencies and processes to meet competitive compliance challenges. ECS's highly trusted Training Academy holds ITAR and EAR seminars every eight weeks in a different location around the country—all focused on export compliance and technology transfer knowledge-sharing. The ECS Training Academy is considered one of today’s premier learning environments for new and established export compliance professionals.
For more information on Export Compliance Solutions & Consulting, visit www.exportcompliancesolutions.com.
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