Focus On: Embargoes, Sanctions and End-Use Controls

Following on from the Beginners Guide to Exporting / Importing this interactive session covers the key points of exporting goods. It covers essential details about the Incoterms Rules, export documentation and working with freight forwarders to ensure goods are correctly declared. Ideal for anyone whose job has an export connection, whether sales, contracts, finance, shipping or for a managerial overview.

Whether at the start of your learning pathway or as a standalone training session, this course will begin your journey to understand export licensing controls and how they work. Covering essential elements gives delegates an excellent springboard to understand what goods, technology or software could be controlled and review business-relevant areas in more detail.

In this workshop learner will find out why the tariff is so important, not only because it contains the commodity codes classifications but because of it's link to other trade measures. It looks at the structure of the Harmonised System (HS) and uses interactive session to help you understand how to classify your goods, the importance of section and chapter notes and how and when to use the General Interpretative Rules (GIRs).

This full-day session focuses on a topic relevant to many industry sectors, dual-use regulations. With licences now required for dual-use items moving between the UK and EU, the need to understand this topic has grown significantly. The controls are based on an item’s inherent capability, type of materials or technical ability affecting many industry sectors, including chemical, metals, high-tech products, oil and gas industries, etc.

A practical session to explain the information needed to apply for individual licences and how to understand when an open licence is appropriate for a particular movement or transfer of controlled items. This workshop is designed to teach delegates how to use the export licensing system in the UK.

A popular interactive training course designed for companies involved in the Defence, High Technology and Military environment. The USA have very heavy controls on some of its goods; incorrect end-use of certain US technology leads to potential fines and penalties. Ultimately being denied the right to trade with the USA. This course looks at the controls and regulations affecting goods that are caught under the EAR and ITAR

Export Controls increase the level of compliance for businesses whose exports require a licence. The Export Control Joint Unit is responsible for issuing export licences for strategic Goods, Software and Technology (Military and Dual Use) to countries outside the UK.

This course has been created to meet the growing demand for specialist training in export processes that apply to food and drink products. It explains the regulatory bodies involved, what they do and what they need from a food/drink exporter. It will help you understand labelling and registration of products and where to obtain further information.

A useful follow on from Export Essentials, or the Export / Import Practitioner Learning Pathway or for those already experienced in export procedures. This two-day course covers the main aspects of export procedures in a practical, clear and comprehensive way that is relevant to today's exporters. As well as looking at export documents it examines what internal processes and procedures are required to keep compliant.

CDS is a new system that requires further data to be declared both for your import and export entries. This increased amount of information is required by all businesses.

Even intangible transmission of controlled items needs export licences. The licensing regulations cover technology, software, and goods; the main difference is that the former can be sent to another country intangibly, e.g. by email, via a VPN, or downloaded from a website. This session will review the type of licences available, how to use them and maintain a technology log for audit purposes. It also covers the use of technology by employees while working overseas.

This course brings together in a practical session the key elements of the UK Export Licensing System. Reviewing the UK strategic export control lists along with the implementation and legislation around financial sanctions it will provide delegates a detailed bedrock of knowledge on which it base future learning and understand internal requirements.