On Sun, August 7, 2011 2:42 pm, Michael Watterson wrote: > I think it only means you can't sell direct to Iran, North Korea etc? > AND only applies if the company or parts deals with Embargoed Items? ITAR deals with items that are (and those that can possibly be repurposed for military uses). The restrictions that deal with the embargoed countries are under a different set of laws- there are just some countries that you can't deal with, and some companies that are considered "bad actors" that are known/believed to resell to those embargoed countries. > I'm curious. Maybe someone else on the list can clarify. A very few US > companies asked me to agree a disclaimer that I wasn't a Terrorist, > Making Nukes, or dealing with Iran, North Korea etc. > > Not that I want to to buy 200 tone filter modules, but it's the first > I've heard of these regulations creating a problem for ordinary people > or parts exports from USA. Despite my whinging about carriage, I have > bought electronics and parts relatively frequently from USA. Not heavy > things mind. The area I'm concerned with is making sure I'm not dealing with a broker that does the unsavory dealings in addition to the perfectly innocuous transactions (such as touch tone filters). In terms of ethics and legality, I try to follow something I learned some corporate training a long time ago- avoid *EVEN THE APPEARANCE* of impropriety. For example (another company I'm not associated with, but one that came up in a google search), here is a company that provides the screening service: - I'm absolutely sure that any company that regularly does international shipping from the US will use such a service, even if they don't tell you. This is getting a bit beyond the [EE] tag, I think that if it continues, it probably should be under a different tag. I guess there isn't a [IANAECE but...] tag. (I am not an export compliance expert, but ... :) Matt Bennett Just outside of Austin, TX 30.51,-97.91 The views I express are my own, not that of my employer, a large multinational corporation that you are familiar with. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .