How Do I Avoid Dealing with Unauthorized Parties?

Superior Freight Services has developed a simple to use program that has consolidated the governments’ lists into one database online.  This tool will check batch uploads or single queries to see if you are at risk to making a shipment you will later regret.  Superior has also built this program into its shipping forms and will automatically alert all parties involved by email and online if there is any risk at all.

Here are several steps you should take to avoid dealing with unauthorized parties.

1. Read and understand the “Know Your Customer Guidance” provided in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and as part of this Web site. It will help you recognize and avoid prohibited transactions.

2. Be familiar with the “Red Flag Indicators” that can help you recognize illegal, or potentially illegal, transactions. (See real life case history example.) If Red Flags are present you must exercise appropriate due diligence to either resolve questions before engaging in the proposed transaction; or, if questions cannot be resolved, either refrain from the transaction or submit a license application to BIS.

3. Check the parties to your transaction (including freight forwarders, intermediate consignees, and the ultimate consignee) against key U.S. Government Lists to Check to identify parties subject to denial orders or otherwise restricted or prohibited from engaging in U.S. export transactions. Note that the presence of a party’s name on BIS’s Unverified List, which identifies parties whose bona fides BIS has been unable to determine in End-Use Checks, is considered a “Red Flag” calling for you to exercise due diligence (see point 2, above).

4. If you are being asked to participate in an export transaction that you believe may be illegal, or if you have information that such an illegal transaction may be about to occur, you are encouraged to contact BIS’s Office of Export Enforcement immediately. You may also confidentially report these situations via the Leads and Tips form on this website.

 

 

Superior’s Denied Parties Database Check

Every day at midnight Superior Freight’s Denied Party program sweeps the governments’ database to update any changes that have been made to the lists.  Superior’s customers have a special log in to access this program. We do all the work for you – whether you want to simply check individually companies/names, or want to take your company’s list of customers and upload it into our system to check thousands of names and addresses in a matter of seconds.  This system will give you the peace of mind you need and will keep your company compliant.  This database is a list of individuals or companies that have been denied export privileges by the Treasury Department, State Department, Secretary of State, and Department of Commerce. Here are the lists below:

Please contact Superior at (952) 854-5053 if you or your company would like access to this system.