Are You an Exporter?

If you do any of the following, you may be an exporter:

• Teaching foreign nationals about the use or design of export-controlled equipment/tools, or related technologies.
• Disclosing or shipping third-party controlled proprietary information to a foreign national in the U.S. (even in your own lab) or to anyone outside the U.S. as part of a research project.
• Receiving any export-controlled information or controlled proprietary information specified in NDAs, contracts, grants, MTAs, or purchase orders.
• Providing a service or anything of value to a sanctioned country (e.g., Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria).
• Exporting items by mail, FedEx, freight forwarder or by hand carrying.

In general, the export control regulations cover four main types of University activities:

• Shipment from the United States to a foreign country of controlled physical items, such as scientific equipment, that require export licenses.
• Transactions involving or travel to a sanctioned country or transactions involving sanctioned individuals or entities.
• Transfer of information related to export-controlled items, including technical data, to persons or entities outside the United States.
• Verbal, written, electronic, or visual disclosure to, or sharing with, foreign nationals of controlled scientific and technical information related to export controlled items, even when it occurs within the United States.