BIS adds 33 people to Unverified List

The Commerce Department move is based on inconclusive end-use checks of compliance with U.S. export control regulations.    The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has added 33 persons to its Unverified List based on inconclusive end-use checks of their compliance with U.S. export control regulations.
   The new entries to the list include 11 persons located in China, 12 in Russia, five in the United Arab Emirates, two in Canada and one person each in Estonia, Finland and Pakistan.
   There are myriad reasons why end-use checks cannot be completed, causing these persons to be added to the Unverified List. For example, BIS may be unable to find a foreign party at the address indicated on the export documents and thus cannot contact the party by telephone or email. There may be cases in which BIS is prevented by foreign governments from performing thorough export end-use checks. 
   Under these circumstances, BIS may not have sufficient information to add foreign persons of concern to the Entity List under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and thus will place them on the Unverified List. 
   Export transactions with persons listed on the Unverified List may require a Commerce Department export license. If not subject to a license, the exporter is required to obtain and keep on record an Unverified List statement from the listed individual before proceeding with the shipment. 
   A list of the 33 persons added to the Unverified List is available here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/05/17/2018-10528/revisions-to-the-unverified-list-uvl.