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Event: Is Your Company Unknowingly an Exporter

July 7, 2008

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Is Your Company Unknowingly an Exporter? Jim Kearny Presents on Export Controls

Please join the Association of Corporate Counsel's New to In-house Committee on Wednesday, July 16, 2008, at 3:00 pm EST for their monthly committee teleconference and legal update. The guest speaker will be Womble Carlyle attorney Jim Kearney, an authority on export controls.

Topic Description:
Even if your company does not export traditional physical goods across borders, it still may be an exporter under U.S. laws, and therefore subject to a variety of risks and compliance requirements that may not be instantly obvious, even to experienced in-house counsel. Today's export laws cast a wide net, covering not just goods, but also transfers such as visual inspection by foreign nationals of U.S.-origin equipment and facilities, oral exchanges of information in the United States or abroad, the application to situations abroad of personal knowledge or technical experience acquired in the United States, or disclosing (including oral or visual disclosure) or transferring technical data to a foreign person, whether in the U.S. or abroad. Penalties for violating U.S. export control laws can be severe. For both individuals and companies, the potential penalties include civil fines, criminal sanctions, debarment from government contracting, and the loss of export privileges. Learn more about U.S. Export Control laws and whether or not your company should take another look at its practices and compliance programs.

Below are a few of the issues that will be addressed by this teleconference:

  • What counts as an "export" and what are the primary U.S. export control rules?
  • Are the EAR and ITAR the only U.S. controls on exports and what activities do they govern?
  • What are the penalties for violating U.S. Export Laws?

Contact Adam Palmer via email or Nichole Opkins via email at ACC to receive more information. Teleconferences are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 3:00 pm EST.