Commodity Classification and License Assistance
Classifying your products correctly is perhaps the most critical aspect of your companys export control process. Recognizing this, CTP provides a range of product classification services, enabling ourprivate clients to better understand and manage their compliance challenges, including:
- Determine, or apply for, commodity jurisdiction (CJ) rulings
- Determine or verify the export classification of products/technologies/software
- Create a Product/Technology Classification Matrix
- Research the availability of exemptions or exceptions
- Determine the Schedule B numbers and HTS Codes
CTP provides fast, cost-effective classification services to private clients throughout the United States. Accuracy is assured, since several of our experts were authors of key processes and procedural rulings in the development of the U.S. export control system and they continue to stay abreast of technical advances and committee rulings, both within the U.S. and from the international export control regimes. Our primary strength is in dual-use export controls, but we are adept also in the classification and licensing of military items. In addition to direct classification services, we can teach your staff to do this work in the future and also provide them with sophisticated software tools that are customized for this task.
License Assistance
In this rapidly changing export environment, many companies are seeking assistance with specific license applications. Sometimes they simply need preliminary advice, such as commodity jurisdiction or possible exemptions/exceptions, while other times they want us to assist with the entire process, from preparing the application to shepherding it through the licensing process.
Several of our staff members are engineers and former licensing officers, so we are uniquely qualified to provide this kind of assistance at both the State Department and the Dept. of Commerce. Our licensing support services include:
- Assist with SNAP or DTRADE
- Assist with newly mandated Automated Export System (AES)
- Prepare, advise, or facilitate license applications
