About SO Direct Trade Compliance Training and Services

SO Direct's International Trade Compliance Consultance call upon local specialists in International Trade Compliance Training to benefit from SO Direct International Trade Compliance training courses that result in the assigned 'gatekeepers' within an organisation becoming proficient at making export assessment of documents, drawings, models and hardware/software being exported and at assigning export tags to these items.

SO Direct provides fully trained, experienced, senior Technical Compliance Officers to deliver training courses for engineering, procurement and operational managers in mixed groups at selected venues, and tailored courses at a client company's own facilities. Follow up refresher sessions and additional consultancy services can be provided on request.

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Typically, SO Direct courses cover areas such as what to watch out for, for example: Exports - links to the military that seem inappropriate to the stated business or transaction. Transactions involving an embargoed country, a citizen, or representative of an embargoed country, or an individual or entity subject to Government sanction.
Imports - any payment to the exporter or benefiting the exporter that is not included in the invoice price or otherwise reported to customs officials. Inaccurate identification of country of origin of the imported goods. Use of an import tariff classification that does not appear to be an accurate description of the imported goods.

SO Direct "pre audit heath checks". If your business holds export licences (OGEL or OSEL etc.) you will be audited periodically by the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) formally DBERR)) to ensure that your records are robust prior to these audits SO Direct will undertake a pre audit heath check to ensure that your documentation is as robust as possible.

International Trade Compliance Training which is SO Doable and SO Global from SO Direct services include bespoke systems, maintenance and training for Open General Export Licence (OGEL), Standard Individual Export Licence (SIEL), Open Individual Export Licence (OIEL), Global Project Licence (GPL), Trade Control Licence, and Transshipment Licence.

SO Direct "turn key export control service" where an organisation is not geared up with the resource - dedicated Training Compliance Officers (TCO) and Authorised Export Tagger (AET) to maintain compliance SO Direct will do it all, set up a bespoke system, identify where you need licences, apply for your licences maintain your records for audit purposes, in short take the burden away from you and let your staff get on with their day job.

SO Direct's FIVE Steps to successful tagging was voted the most popular course by attendees to the Defence Systems Equipment International Show at Excel, London, September 2009. Course creator, John Jackson, with 35 years experience of working in Aerospace and Defence, has created the course so that attendees can become fully proficient by the end of the course in applying a robust FIVE step process to determine an Item's Export Tag and how to record this information in the International Trade Compliance recording tool(s) within a business.

The FIVE Steps to successful tagging are:

Identify the Item being Exported

Identify: Goods and or Technology? (by part number or unique identifier)

Determine Export Control Jurisdiction (Military or Dual Use / Civil)

Jurisdiction: Is the Items END USE Military or DUAL USE?

Determine the Item's Export Classification (Military or Dual Use / Civil)

Classification: Do the Goods and or Technology Need a Licence before they are Exported?

Determine the item's Export Authorisation (LR or NLR)

Authorisation: Determine the type of Authorisation required to Export the Goods and or Technology (Licence Required or NO Licence Required (LR or NLR))

Properly document and Tag the Items Rationale for the above determinations

Document: Document your findings for Audit and Tracability

Document: Document your findings for Audit and Tracability

Watch List: Maintain a watch list at all times identifying those country's, organisations and individuals which have been identified by the National or International Authorities as embargoed or red flagged.

ITC Training Courses

Courses are run at two levels; introduction, basic understanding and knowledge (what to look out for) and advanced courses for senior compliance officers.

Full documentation, testing and answers, and certificates to show successful completion of the courses are provided.

Follow up online advice, with FAQs, and access to our consultants post training, are offered as part of the course.

SO Direct's International Trade Compliance training experts have over 35 years' experience of global supply chain projects in Aerospace, Defence, Transport, Commercial and Engineering. SO Direct are members of the Export Group Aerospace and Defence (EGAD).

SO Direct is a market leader in International Trade Compliance training courses and consultancy services, helping companies gain a knowledge and understanding of United States and UK/European export controls under ITAR and BIS (UK Government Department formerly DBERR - now Business Innovation and Skills) regulations as they apply to companies globally.

To reserve a place on one of our courses enquire about on-site training, or learn more about SO Direct ITC Training courses, visit:
Contact enquiries@sodirect.org.

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