The Latest on Putting MEU and MIEU Requirements into Action: Hidden Lessons for Updating Compliance and Licensing Practices

During Kay’s session, she will cover the topics: 

• How the industry has been implementing licensing requirements for exports, re-exports, and transfers of items intended for military end use (MEU) and military-intelligence end users (MIEU) in China
• The nuances across the U.S. prohibitions under the EAR and ITAR
• Key licensing guidance: What triggers approvals, denials and RWAs
• Practicalities of implementing the heightened due diligence requirements for sales and technology transfers
• How the industry is updating screening, compliance policies and procedures around MEU and MIEU Regulations
• EAR Section 744.21 restrictions on the export, re-export, and transfer of certain items for “military end uses”
• How and why the Commerce Department expanded the “Military End-User” definition to include: any item “that supports or contributes to the operation, installation, maintenance, repair, overhaul, refurbishing, ‘development,’ or ‘production,’ of military items.”