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SIA Scholarship Applications Due NLT Feb 17, 2012

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:00:00 GMT

SIA International Trade Scholarship Program

The Society for International Affairs, Inc. (SIA) is an all volunteer, nonprofit, educational organization that was jointly formed in 1967 by the U.S. Government and Industry. SIA provides a forum for the exchange of information related to export and import licensing and compliance. SIA’s interests cover the entire spectrum of licensing and compliance pertaining to the Departments of Commerce, Defense, State, Treasury and Homeland Security, with the primary focus on exports and imports of military and defense related products and services.

As part of our educational mission, SIA has established a program that awards scholarships to students pursuing a degree in the field of International Trade. Scholarships are granted to support studies in areas such as political science; international relations; economics; international business; etc.

Each calendar year, up to four (4) scholarships will be awarded in the amount of $2,500 each and will be paid directly to the college or university. The scholarship recipients will also receive free admission to one of SIA’s 3-day “Basic” conferences.

To be eligible, the applicant must be a rising junior or senior undergraduate or a graduate student, enrolled in an accredited college or university, with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Applicants must also be sponsored by a member of SIA.

Criteria for selection, in order of importance, are:

Proven interest or experience in international trade or related area, to include work or volunteer experience;
Current academic standing and performance (must be a rising junior or senior undergraduate, or a graduate student, with a minimum 3.0 overall GPA);
Narrative and letter of recommendation; and
Honors and extracurricular activities.

Please complete the enclosed application, along with the following required attachments:

OfficialCollegetranscript(s) to include all institutes of higher education;
A brief, typed narrative explaining your interest in international trade and why you should receive the scholarship; and
One written recommendation from a professor, work colleague or other individual who can speak to the applicant’s accomplishments and interest in the field of international trade.

For the 2012 Scholarship year, all applications must be received no later than February 17, 2012. Packages should be mailed or emailed to:

The Society for International Affairs

ATTN: International Trade Scholarship Program

P.O. Box9466

Arlington, VA22209

admin@siaed.org

Please see link below for more information and application form:

/attachments/wysiwyg/60/2012%20Scholarship%20Application.doc

19-Dec-11 11:00 AM

Federal Register Notice re Part 129, Brokering Proposed Rule

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:00:00 GMT

Federal Register Notice: A proposed rule to revise Part 129, Brokering, has been published in the Federal Register. (12.19.11)
Click here to read.

19-Dec-11 10:00 AM

December 6 Federal Regsiter Notices

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:00:00 GMT

(From DDTC Website)

Federal Register Notice: The ITAR has been amended to allow for use of FEDWIRE as an additional method of payment for registration. (12.06.11)
Click here to read.

Federal Register Notice: A proposed rule to revise Category VII has been published in the Federal Register.(12.06.11)
Click here to read.

Federal Register Notice: A proposed rule to add Category XIX has been published in the Federal Register.(12.06.11)
Click here to read.

9-Dec-11 10:00 AM

ITAR Amendment Revision of USML Cat VIII

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:00:00 GMT

Please see attached amendment regarding Revision of USML Catergory VIII. The effective date of this amendment is November 7, 2011.

/attachments/wysiwyg/60/Cat VIII - FRN Public Viewing(1).pdf

4-Nov-11 10:00 AM

ITAR Amendment Re Libya and UNSCR 2009

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:00:00 GMT

Please see attached link for ITAR Amendment Re Libya. The effective date of this amendment is November 4, 2011

/attachments/wysiwyg/60/Libya%20-%20FRN%20Public%20Viewing.pdf

4-Nov-11 9:00 AM

ITAR Amendment Re License Filing/Retention/Return/Export Info

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 13:00:00 GMT

Please see attached ITAR Amendment regarding Filing, Retention and Return of Export Licenses and Filing of Export Information. The effective date of this Amendment is November 4, 2011.

/attachments/wysiwyg/60/Lic%20Return%20Final%20-%20FRN%20Public%20Viewing.pdf

4-Nov-11 9:00 AM

Newly Revised DS-4076 Commodity Jurisdiction Form

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Effective immediately, applicants must use the newly revised DS-4076 Commodity Jurisdiction form, Version Number 1.2. All prior versions will be rejected at the time of submission. One principal change includes a change to Block 12 adding a �none� check box, which will allow applicants to indicate when there is no equivalent U.S. or foreign product. Another change in Block 19 gives the applicant the option of directing DDTC to correspond with the applicant by email, to include notification of the final determination, rather than by means of the U.S. Postal Service. Click here to view new guidelines.

2-Sep-11 2:00 PM

Congratulations to our 2011 SIA Scholarship Recipients!

Efrat Weiss - noemail@siaed.org — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 18:00:00 GMT

As part of our educational mission, in 2008 SIA established a program that awards scholarships to students pursuing a degree in the field of International Trade. Scholarships are granted to support studies in areas such as political science; international relations, economics, international business, etc.

Each calendar year, up to four (4) scholarships are awarded in the amount of $2500 each. The scholarship recipients also receive free admission to one of SIA’s 3-Day “Basics” conferences. Various eligibility requirements exist.

Our 2011 scholarship recipients are:

Jesus Aguilaris a student at California Lutheran University.

Tatiana Blaco-Bertolo. Tatiana is a student at George Washington University.

Janice Ebert. Janice is a student at Michigan State University.

Lenessa Mengesha. Lenessa is a student at Michigan State University

Congratulations to all four recipients. We wish them future success in their studies and career endeavors.

SIA Board of Directors

28-Aug-11 2:00 PM

An Acronym list has been posted to the DDTC website

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 18:00:00 GMT

An Acronym list has been posted to the DDTC website . Click here to view.

22-Aug-11 2:00 PM

DDTC Updates Guidelines for Electronic Agreement Submissions

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:00:00 GMT

State/DDTC Updates Guidelines for Electronic Agreement Submissions

http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/licensing/documents/Guidelines%20for%20Preparing%20Electronic%20Agreements%20Revision%203%20%282%29.pdf)

19-Aug-11 3:00 PM

NEW Dual and Third Country National Guidance

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:45:00 GMT

NEW Dual and Third Country National Guidance: The following guidance relates to the August 15, 2011 implementation of the new 126.18 rule on dual and third country nationals. The first document relates to the changes to agreements and will be incorporated into the new Guidelines as well. D-TCN AG Guidance Final.
The following notional implementation plan is a suggested approach, but is by no means the only way of complying with the rule and its core principle of preventing diversion of defense articles to unauthorized end-users and end-uses. Consistent with local national laws and programs for the control/protection of defense articles/technologies and consistent with the need for private entities to protect proprietary data, technology security plans should be designed with a comprehensive and individualized approach to securing sensitive data of all kinds with appropriate measures for physical security and personnel clearances. D-TCN Policy Implementation Final. Additional guidance and clarification is provided in the attached Frequently Asked Questions relating to both of the above documents. D-TCN FAQs Final.

29-Jul-11 2:45 PM

White House Highlights Priority for President's Export Control Initiative

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:00:00 GMT

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 19, 2011

White House Chief of Staff Daley Highlights Priority for

the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, White House Chief of Staff William Daley emphasized the Administration’s continued priority for the Export Control Reform Initiative as a national security imperative. The reforms when implemented will facilitate cooperation with U.S. allies and export control regime partners, strengthen the competitiveness of sectors key to U.S. national security, and increase U.S. exports, while maintaining robust controls where appropriate to enhance our national security. The current export control system is still based on the geopolitical, economic, and technological realties of the Cold War era and must be changed to meet 21^st century national security needs.

Last August, President Obama announced the foundation of a new export control system to strengthen U.S. national security and competitiveness of key U.S. manufacturing and technology sectors by reforming our Cold War era system and adapting it to the changing economic and technological landscape. This initiative followed a year-long interagency review that determined that the current export control system is overly complicated and fragmented, contains too many redundancies, and, in trying to control too much, diminishes our ability to focus on the most critical national security priorities, impairs the interoperability of our Armed Forces with our Allies in the field, and undermines the competitiveness of sectors key to U.S. national security.

In his remarks, provided at a Department of Commerce export control conference, Chief of Staff Daley highlighted a proposed regulation which takes a major step forward in the reform effort. The Commerce regulation proposes fundamental changes to the export control system by:

Laying out the process by which less militarily significant items (e.g., parts and components) will be transferred from the U.S. Munitions List (USML) to the more flexible Commerce Control List (CCL) within a new control series (informally termed the Commerce Munitions List);

Defining the licensing policies for those items that will be moved;

Proposing a single definition for a term “specially designed” to clarify a central element of the export control system; and

Demonstrating the application of this process to one category of the USML Category VII (Tanks and Military Vehicles).

Moving militarily less significant parts and components from the USML to the CCL is a major step in implementing the Administration’s common sense approach to export controls. These changes will strengthen U.S. national security by allowing the export control system to focus on controlling the most critical technologies and by enhancing the competitiveness of key sectors:

By applying the new criteria, 11,000 or approximately 90 percent of the 12,000 Category VII items licensed in 2009 and subject to stricter USML controls, even to our closest U.S. allies, will be shifted to a more flexible list;

Of the items that move, about 50 percent of the items will be eligible automatically for license-free treatment, subject to certain compliance and re-export requirements to U.S. allies and regime partners;

About 35 percent of transferred items will continue to require an export license, but would be eligible for consideration for license exception eligibility -- i.e., exportable without a specific export license -- to close U.S. allies and multilateral export control regime partners, with the same enhanced compliance and re-export authorization requirements, after U.S. Government approval;

The remaining 15 percent will likely fall to the bottom of the list and no longer be subject to a license requirement to almost all countries;

As a result, we anticipate that about 55 percent of the licenses currently issued for this category will be eliminated.

After consultations with Congress and review and consideration of the public’s comments on the proposed regulation, published by the Department of Commerce on July 15, 2011, the Administration will move forward with implementing these changes. After the completion of the required congressional notification process and consideration of the public’s comments on the proposed revised categories, the lists will be published as final.

Background on the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative

In August 2009, the President ordered a broad-based review of the U.S. export control system with the goal of strengthening our national security and increasing the competitiveness of key manufacturing and technology sectors. This review called for fundamental reform in what exportable goods we control, how we control them, how we enforce those controls, and how we manage those controls.

The current export control system operates under two different control lists with fundamentally different approaches to defining products and administered by two different departments (State and Commerce). There are three different primary licensing agencies, each applying their own policies, none seeing the others’ licenses, and all operating under unique procedures and definitions. When completed, the President’s export control reform initiative will result in a single control list, a single licensing agency, a single primary enforcement coordination agency, and a single information technology system.

In April 2010, former Defense Secretary Gates called for the removal of licensing requirements for the bulk of the tens of thousands of license applications to EU and NATO countries for which we say “yes” to export, and said we should concentrate our resources on the rest – in short, a system where “higher walls are placed around fewer, more critical items.”

Last December, President Obama announced the first step of implementation, the application of new criteria to be used in defining how the lists should be rebuilt. The Department of Commerce proposed rule creates a new framework for controlling militarily less significant defense articles (largely generic parts and components) by moving them from the more restrictive USML to the more flexible CCL. The proposed rule – Control of Items the President Determines No Longer Warrant Control under the United States Munitions List– maintains controls for items that are significant to maintaining a military or intelligence advantage to the United States, while permitting more flexible licensing policies for exports to close U.S. allies and partners. This rule marks the next step toward harmonizing the two control lists, which proposes the new list structure for the eventual creation of a single list administered by a single licensing agency.

The changes under consideration for how the United States controls military and other items are significant. No items will move to the Commerce Control List until the Administration has had time to review and consider the public and other comments that are submitted about the proposed rule and after consultations with Congress. For specifics of how the new rule will work, please see the Department of Commerce.

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20-Jul-11 9:00 PM

Updated Guidelines re Various DDTC License/Other Forms Requirements

Efrat Weiss - noemail@siaed.org — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:00:00 GMT

Please see below updated DDTC guidelines for DSP-73, DSP-61, DSP-85 forms and General Correspondance and Proviso Reconsideration requirements.

Licensing: Guidelines for DSP-73 and DSP-61 License Applications: Supporting Documentation Requirements has been updated. (6.27.11)
Click here to read.

Licensing: Guidelines for General Correspondence for Amendment of Existing ITAR Authorizations Due to U.S. Entity Name/Address and/or Registration Code Changes has been updated. (6.27.11)
Click here to read.

Licensing: Guidelines for Requests for Proviso Reconsideration and/or Clarification has been updated. (6.27.11)
Click here to read.

Licensing: Guidelines for DSP-85 Applications: Supplemental Guidance has been posted. (6.27.11)
Click here to read.

28-Jun-11 1:00 PM

DDTC Posts Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) Status

Efrat Weiss - noemail@siaed.org — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:00:00 GMT

Commodity Jurisdiction: DDTC is now posting on a weekly basis the status of Commodity Jurisdiction cases in process. Please click here to view the current CJ Processing Status spreadsheet. (6.24.11)

Since electronic CJ processing began in September 2010, applicants had to rely on the Response Team (202-663-1282) to answer any questions concerning status. Later this year, Commodity Jurisdiction status will be available on the DDTC web site through MARY. Applicants are reminded that Commodity Jurisdiction processing typically requires 60 days. If no determination appears in the chart after the 60-day period has elapsed, inquiries should be directed to the Response Team at 202-663-1282.

24-Jun-11 5:00 PM

ITAR: Final Rule on dual-nationals and third country nationals employed by foreign end users has been published. (5.16.11)

Mon, 16 May 2011 16:00:00 GMT

ITAR: Final Rule on dual-nationals and third country nationals employed by foreign end users has been published. (5.16.11)
Click here to read.

16-May-11 12:00 PM

DDTC Notice Regarding DSP-85 License Applications

Efrat Weiss - noemail@siaed.org — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:00:00 GMT

Effective May 13, 2011: DDTC Licensing will no longer accept the multi-page DSP-85 license application paper form. After this date, all submissions must be made using the DSP-85 downloadable and fillable form, and mailed or delivered to DDTC. The DSP-85 form may be found under the Licensing tab under "Forms". No changes have been made to the content of the form itself. Click here to view the form.

13-May-11 12:00 PM

"ITAR Proposed Rule for Defense Services"

Efrat Weiss - noemail@siaed.org — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Proposed Rule: "ITAR Proposed Rule for Defense Services" has been published in the Federal Register. Comments are due to PM/DDTC by June 13, 2011. Click here to read.

14-Apr-11 8:00 PM

DDTC Proposed Rule re Chemical Agent Protective Gear

Efrat Weiss - noemail@siaed.org — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Proposed Rule: "ITAR Proposed Rule for Exemption for Temporary Export of Chemical Agent Protective Gear" has been published in the Federal Register. Comments are due to PM/DDTC by May 23, 2011. Click here to read.

24-Mar-11 2:00 PM

DDTC Proposed Rule-Replacement Parts/Components and Other

Efrat Weiss - noemail@siaed.org — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:00:00 GMT

Proposed Rule: "ITAR Proposed Rule for Replacement Parts/Components and Incorporated Articles" has been published in the Federal Register. Comments are due to PM/DDTC by April 14, 2011. Click here to read.

16-Mar-11 2:00 PM

BIS Publishes an Amendment to the Export Administration Regulations

SIA - noemail@siaed.org — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:00:00 GMT

BIS Publishes an Amendment to the Export Administration Regulations: Application Processing, Issuance, and Denial.

Please visit http://www.bis.doc.gov/news/2011/fr_03072011.pdf for more information.

8-Mar-11 12:00 PM