The Bureau of Industry and Security's Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committees (TAC) held a partially open meeting on January 25, 2011. The agenda for the public session included remarks from BIS Management and industry presentations on four pending notices, two from the Commerce Department and two from the State Department, with February 7 and 8, 2011 comment due dates, respectively.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has announced that Energia Overseas Limited has acquired Sea Launch L.L.C. As a result of the acquisition, Sea Launch L.L.C., remains known as Sea Launch L.LC. However, new license applications received after February 28, 2011, identifying Sea Launch L.L.C. as a party to the license will be considered for return without action for correction.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls announces that registration for its March 17, 2011 in-house seminar is now open. In-house seminars are one-day training events covering export licensing basics and are open to the export community. A registration form is available here.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has issued a final rule, effective January 25, 2011, which amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) to implement several components of the November 2010 bilateral understanding between the U.S. and India on export control reform, including removing India’s defense and space-related entities from the Entity List, removing India from three country groups and adding it to one country group in the EAR.
Export.gov has announced that registration is available for a number of upcoming export-based webinars.
The Census Bureau is requesting comments on a information collection regarding proposed changes to the export reporting requirements under Automated Export System (AES)1.
The Directorate of Defense Trade Controls has announced the following entity name change for new DDTC license applications. New license applications received after the listed deadline will be considered for return without action for correction to the new name (date hyperlinked):
The Bureau of Industry and Security has opened registration for the sixth annual Export Control Forum on February 28 - March 1, 2011, which will feature key management, policy, legal and licensing specialists from BIS, the Departments of State, Defense and Treasury, and the Bureau of the Census.
According to a January 19, 2011 Census Automated Export System broadcast, effective immediately, the Schedule B and Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) tables in AES have been updated to accept the changes to the 2011 codes.
The Bureau of Industry and Security has posted the following updated schedule for its export control and compliance training outreach efforts: