BIS Adds 29 Persons to the UVL

BIS Adds 29 Persons to the UVL (Unverified List) On June 16, 2014, the Federal Register published that the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is amending the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding twenty-nine (29) persons to the UVL. The 29 persons are being added to the UVL on the basis that BIS could not verify their bona fides because an end-use check could not be completed satisfactorily for reasons outside the U.S. Government’s control.

In addition, this rule reinserts a requirement for exporters to file an Automated Export System (AES) record for all exports subject to the EAR involving persons listed on the UVL following that provision’s inadvertent removal from the EAR.

The UVL imposes certain conditions on exports, reexports & transfers to listed person.

The UVL contains the names and addresses of foreign persons who are or have been parties to a transaction, as that term is described in the EAR, involving the export, reexport, or transfer (in-country) of items subject to the EAR, and whose bona fides BIS has been unable to verify through an endues check.

There is a suspension of license exceptions for exports, reexports, and transfers (in-country) involving a party or parties to the transaction who are listed on the UVL.

To read more: Federal Register

To learn more about the Unverified List

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• Unverified List
• Entity List
• Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN)
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