Stronger Export Enforcement Efforts are Facilitating Trade, Official Says

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Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg Trade Report Mar 24, 2015

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement David Mills recently gave an update on the Bureau of Industry and Security’s export enforcement efforts amid the ongoing Export Control Reform initiative. Mills asserted that “strong enforcement is good for legitimate U.S. business by ensuring that all companies that invest in an export compliance program are placed on a level playing field against their competitors.”

Mills said the Information Triage Unit provides information to licensing officers on the bona fides of foreign parties to the most sensitive license applications. This “actually facilitates interagency review of your license applications,” he told the audience, because it allows the interagency review process to focus on the policy aspects of approving the export instead of “debating the facts about the parties.” The ITU supported approximately 1,000 licenses in 2014.

Mills also highlighted the role of the Export Enforcement Coordination Center in ensuring that export enforcement-related activities are deconflicted among federal agencies and that the lead investigative agency has access to all relevant information from other agencies. The E2C2 has deconflicted almost 3,500 activities over the past 18 months, finding that more than 50 percent of the time another agency had information to support the investigation. Mills said this has encouraged information sharing and broadened the array of criminal and administrative tools that can be employed to enforce export control regulations.

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