Wanted: Course in Classification

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  1. novemberdude

    novemberdude New Member

    My wife works for an electronics company. As part of their export operations they have to determine classification of parts, to determine to which category they belong. The key is that some parts may be restricted and as such cannot be sold to Pakistan, China etc.

    They have several people working in Classification, but none of them have any formal training in the field. They understand the parts that they have to classify, but apparently there are general techniques applicable to the job and interpretation of regulations involved that go beyond the company and its products.

    The questino is: is anyone aware of a distance learning course in classification?
     
  2. st22345

    st22345 Member

    Import/Export?

    I see you haven't received any replies yet. I would think this would fall under the realm of import/export requirements. There are many people who regularly frequent this site who either work in that field or who have had training as part of their BSBA/MBA/DBA programs that might have some recomendations of a particular class. I just went through a couple of college catalogs and found several classes that contain reference to import/export.
    Good Luck,
     
  3. Ian Anderson

    Ian Anderson Active Member


    The two federal acts that control exports are:
    Export Administration Act (EAA)
    Arms Export Control Act (AECA).

    The current "buzzwords" for this are "Global trade Controls".
    There are hundreds of courses held every year and mostly conducted by small expert consulting companies. Most courses are less than a week at great expense. I looked thru a long list that I have access to and did not see any offered by an academic institution.

    Here are a few sites to start you looking:
    http://www.usexportcompliance.com/
    http://www.fedpubseminars.com/seminar/eciic.html
    http://www.unzco.com/services/ITAR.htm
    http://www.bsaexport.com/seminars.htm
    http://www.siaed.org/eventlisting.cfm

    Looks like a proffitable field to specialize in.

    Also export means providing goods, services, or tech info to any non-US citizen in the USA or foreign country.

    Also note the rules change frequently so what is acceptable to export this week may be unacceptable last week, or vica versa.

    P.S. I know three guys who went to prison because of ignorance of export control laws.
     
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  4. novemberdude

    novemberdude New Member

    Re: Re: Wanted: Course in Classification

    Dear Ian,

    Thank you for your reply, I will have a look at the links.

    The only academic institution that I have found so far is the International Import Export Institute (DETC accredited) that offers a couple courses (DL of course) that have classification as part of the curriculum.

    What you have pointed me towards has the potential to be more on target.

    Thanks again.

     
  5. DesElms

    DesElms New Member

    Apparently not... either that, or, the whole of the US higher educational system hasn't yet started using that phrase. I just plugged this search string:
    • "global trade controls" site:.edu
    into the Google search box and got only one hit (as of this writing). Of the 7,000-something institutions using the .edu top-level domain (TLD) in their URLs, you'd think that at least a search-results-page-full of them would link to their having that phrase somewhere on their web sites.

    Limiting the search to UK (site:.ac.uk) or Australian (site:.edu.au) higher education web sites produces ZERO search results... at least at this writing. I realize that removing the (site:) restriction altogether produces, at this writing, some 257 search results; but if the institutions of higher learning in three large, English-speaking countries are not using the phrase, then it's hardly a "buzzword" yet... at least not in any accredited courses/programs of the kind sought by the thread-starter.

    Isn't it "vice versa"?

    In what country? Whose export control laws? And for doing precisely what in violation thereof? Can you link us to newspaper stories about these convictions and incarcerations?
     

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