Understanding U.S. re-export rules: a technical introduction

  The impact of U.S. re-export rules is considerable, for they hold that some U.S. products – and non-U.S. products containing U.S. content – remain subject to the jurisdiction of the United States even once they have left U.S. shores. In the first of a two-part article exploring the rules, Kevin DiBartolo describes re-export in the context of the EAR.   For companies outside the United States, perhaps the most anxiety-inducing aspect of U.S. export control and sanctions laws is their broad extraterritorial reach. Unlike the export controls and sanctions laws of most countries, U.S. export controls and sanctions laws...