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Trade compliance starts with export controls, which decide which goods, software, technology and services can leave a country, where they can go and who can receive them. Sanctions add restrictions on countries, sectors, companies and people. Three frameworks often apply to the same transaction, and every export passes through the same six questions.
What a classification looks like
The three frameworks
Dualis starts from the EU framework and adds the US and UK layers wherever they apply to your goods, your people or your money.
The six questions
Each step builds on the one before. A wrong classification makes every later check unreliable, and a good check that nobody repeats protects nothing.
Identify whether your product, software or technology is controlled, and under which list entry.
Embargoes and sanctions can ban goods by customs code, and diversion through third countries is a top enforcement priority in all three frameworks.
Screen customers, consignees, end users, intermediaries and banks, including companies owned or controlled by listed persons, and UN lists in every case.
Check first whether a general or open authorisation covers the export. If not, obtain the right licence, then use it within its conditions.
Keep a complete record of every decision, file what each authority requires, and be ready for an audit. General and open licences come with their own registration and reporting duties.
The first five steps protect you only if your teams follow them on every order, shipment and technology transfer. Dualis drafts your written procedures and internal compliance programme, ready for management sign-off:
Dualis covers every step across the EU, the US and the UK, so you get one consistent answer instead of three separate ones.
General information, not legal advice. Regulatory references change often and should be checked before being relied on.