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Company Boasts of BIS Registration on Its Website


Posted by at 10:01 pm on November 2, 2010
Category: BIS

RegistrationRegular readers are familiar with this blog’s occasional posts on press releases where companies boast that they have registered with the Department of Defense Trade Controls. These press releases describe certain imaginary attributes of this registration, usually that it is a certification by DDTC that the company has met the exacting standards of DDTC to be eligible to export defense articles.

Sharp-eyed reader Lisa Caplinger brought to my attention a yet more lavish variation on the registration game. Now it appears that at least one company is boasting on its website that it is “registered” with the Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”):

The Bureau of Industry and Security is charged with the development, implementation and interpretation of U.S. export control policy for dual-use commodities, software, and technology. Dual-use items subject to BIS regulatory jurisdiction have predominantly commercial uses, but also have military applications. CBOL is registered with BIS, which is a precondition for the issuance of any license or other approval for export.

So, all of you out there who have applied for and received licenses from BIS without registering with the agency, you’d better get those voluntary self disclosures in tout de suite.

For new readers, we are kidding about the voluntary disclosure. No registration is required with BIS, and so no voluntary disclosure is in order. Perhaps the company is referring here to the process of getting a company identification number and PIN to enable electronic filing on the SNAP-R system. Does this mean we will start seeing press releases from companies that have received their ID numbers from BIS for electronic filings?

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3 Comments:


How ironically curious to read this on a day when we elect politicians that pontificate on things about which they don’t know.

Comment by Jim Dickeson on November 2nd, 2010 @ 11:41 pm

Our international enterprise is pleased to report that all employees have passed respective critical examinations administered by a state, district, and/or commonwealth and obtained a legally issued authorization containing an official photographic likeness of their own, actual, image that further permits them to respond to “Official Requests under the Law” to show identification to obtain alcoholic beverages and is a precondition to be eligible to obtain multiple federal, state, and local government authorizations to fish, hunt, drive motorized vehicles, carry concealed weapons, enter the military, receive FEDERAL Express packages, vote, cash financial instruments recognized by the the Bank of America, and/or obtain United States of America passports. Those carrying government issued passports are selectively credentialed to travel at speeds up to and including the speed of sound at altitudes in excess of 30,000 feet to any of seven continents at this time. They hold validated tickets and/or boarding documents that have been presented for examination and cleared by Authorities of the Department of Homeland Security thus evidencing their sound mind, exquisite taste, timeliness for departures, and impeccable character…

Comment by GW on November 3rd, 2010 @ 3:12 pm

ah, the continuing ingorance of the American business scene in regards to conducting international biz. as long folks continue to treat int’l biz like the red-headed step-child of their company, we’ll continue to see these ridiculous self-pronouncements…

Comment by dennis on November 10th, 2010 @ 11:54 am