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BIS Issues Spanish-Language Export Compliance Documents

The Bureau of Industry and Security this week released Spanish-language versions of two export compliance documents to make its materials “more accessible” to those whose primary language is Spanish. The documents are BIS’s Elementos de un ECP (Elements of an…

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Export Compliance Program) and Directrices de Cumplimiento Para Las Exportaciones (Export Compliance Guidelines). The agency said Spanish is the second-most-frequently spoken language in the U.S. And even though a “disproportionately small number” of minority-owned businesses are exporters, “those that do export benefit more from exporting, as a percentage of receipts, when compared to nonminority-owned exporting firms,” BIS said. The agency said it hopes the translated guidance helps to “grow participation and diversity in the export economy by providing resources to help encourage more minority business enterprises to export their products.”