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Question 1Export Administration Regulations

A supplier gives a Schedule B number when asked for an export-control classification. What should the specialist do next?

  1. Obtain a separate supported export-control classification rather than treating the reporting code as an ECCN. Correct answer.
  2. Infer a license exception from the statistical code alone.
  3. Omit classification because the supplier has provided one number.
  4. Use the Schedule B number as the ECCN because both identify goods.

Explanation

Schedule B supports export reporting and does not replace an ECCN or other supported export-control classification. The specialist still needs the technical and jurisdictional analysis relevant to the item.

Question 2Export Administration Regulations

An item is designated EAR99. The sales team says this means it can go to any buyer anywhere. What is the best response?

  1. EAR99 means the item is outside all U.S. export rules.
  2. Only the freight price remains relevant after EAR99 classification.
  3. EAR99 is itself a worldwide export license.
  4. EAR99 does not eliminate destination, end-use, end-user, and other applicable restrictions. Correct answer.

Explanation

EAR99 identifies items subject to the EAR that are not listed on the Commerce Control List. That designation does not remove transaction-specific restrictions involving destinations, uses, users, or other rules.

Question 3Export Administration Regulations

A seller changes a sensor's technical specifications but keeps the old product number. What should happen to its classification record?

  1. Retain the old classification solely because the stock number is unchanged.
  2. Replace the classification with the tariff rate for the destination.
  3. Ask the customer to choose the least restrictive code.
  4. Review whether the technical change affects the classification and document the result. Correct answer.

Explanation

Classification depends on the item's relevant characteristics, not only its commercial stock number. A material technical change therefore requires review even if the sales identifier remains unchanged.

Question 4Export Administration Regulations

A customer asks to route a controlled shipment through a different country after the original review. What is the correct next step?

  1. Reassess the changed route and transaction before release. Correct answer.
  2. Assume the original review covers every route.
  3. Treat an intermediate country as removing the ultimate destination from consideration.
  4. Allow the carrier to decide export legality without providing transaction details.

Explanation

Routing changes can affect the facts on which the authorization and risk review depend. The specialist should reassess the actual transaction rather than assuming the prior decision covers materially different arrangements.

Question 5Export Administration Regulations

An order describes laboratory equipment, but the buyer refuses to identify its intended end use. What should the specialist do?

  1. Delete the unanswered field so the order can clear automatically.
  2. Treat the equipment description as a complete end-use statement.
  3. Resolve the material end-use concern through documented inquiry before approving release. Correct answer.
  4. Assume lack of an answer proves that no restrictions apply.

Explanation

Item description and intended use are different pieces of information. Refusal to explain a material end use should be investigated and escalated as appropriate rather than hidden or treated as clearance.

Question 6Export Administration Regulations

A license exception is proposed because a previous shipment used it. What evidence is still needed?

  1. Proof that the new shipment is commercially important.
  2. Evidence that this transaction satisfies the current exception's actual conditions. Correct answer.
  3. A sales manager's preference for the same treatment.
  4. Only a copy of the old invoice.

Explanation

A previous use of an exception does not establish eligibility for a new transaction. The current item, parties, destination, activity, and applicable conditions must support the proposed exception.

Question 7Export Administration Regulations

A technical drawing is to be shared electronically with an overseas contractor. No hardware will move. What should be assessed?

  1. Whether the contractor promises not to print the drawing.
  2. Only whether the email attachment is small enough to send.
  3. Whether the information and proposed release are subject to applicable controls and authorization requirements. Correct answer.
  4. Nothing, because controls apply only to physical packages.

Explanation

Export analysis can include technology and other information releases as well as hardware shipments. The content, jurisdiction, recipient, destination, and activity must be assessed before access is provided.

Question 8Export Administration Regulations

A classification file contains only the sentence “Vendor says unrestricted” with no specifications or reasoning. What is the main deficiency?

  1. It contains too few commercial prices.
  2. It should replace all analysis with a screenshot of the vendor logo.
  3. The conclusion lacks a documented technical and regulatory basis that can be evaluated. Correct answer.
  4. It does not use the customer's preferred shipping term.

Explanation

A usable classification record should support the conclusion with relevant item facts and an appropriate regulatory analysis. An unexplained assurance cannot be meaningfully checked or updated when circumstances change.

Question 9Export Administration Regulations

A transaction clears a restricted-party name screen. What can be concluded from that result alone?

  1. Any later change in parties is automatically cleared.
  2. The transaction has received an export license.
  3. The particular screen produced no unresolved name match, while other required checks remain. Correct answer.
  4. Every end use is now authorized.

Explanation

Name screening addresses one part of transaction review and is not itself a license or an end-use determination. Its result must be interpreted alongside the other facts and controls.

Question 10Export Administration Regulations

A customer wants the exporter to enter a less capable model on the paperwork than the one actually supplied. What is the appropriate response?

  1. Require accurate identification and resolve the discrepancy before shipment. Correct answer.
  2. Use the requested model because the buyer knows its own market.
  3. Use whichever description produces fewer restrictions.
  4. Keep the true model only in an informal note while filing the other one.

Explanation

The documents and analysis must describe the actual item. Deliberately substituting another model undermines classification, reporting, and authorization review rather than resolving the transaction's requirements.

Question 11Export Administration Regulations

A license covers identified items and a named consignee. The order is reassigned to another consignee. What should happen?

  1. Check whether the authorization covers the changed transaction and obtain any required approval before proceeding. Correct answer.
  2. Ask the warehouse to change the name without informing compliance.
  3. Treat the license as freely transferable because the item is unchanged.
  4. Assume any consignee in the same industry is equivalent.

Explanation

Authorization scope includes relevant transaction particulars, not just the item name. A consignee change must be evaluated against the actual permission and applicable requirements before release.

Question 12Export Administration Regulations

A compliance analyst cannot determine whether a component meets a technical control parameter. What information is most useful?

  1. The colour of the retail packaging.
  2. Reliable specifications or technical clarification addressing the parameter. Correct answer.
  3. The marketing team's preferred launch date.
  4. The value of a different component sold last year.

Explanation

A technical classification question requires facts that map to the relevant parameter. Reliable specifications and engineering clarification are more probative than commercial timing, packaging colour, or another product's price.

Question 13Export Administration Regulations

A distributor says the goods will be resold but will not explain the ultimate customer or use when those facts are material. What is appropriate?

  1. Replace the unknown ultimate use with a standard description copied from another order.
  2. Assume the distributor's name screen resolves all ultimate-use questions.
  3. Treat every resale as automatically unrestricted.
  4. Seek enough reliable information to resolve the transaction's material risks and restrictions. Correct answer.

Explanation

A distributor's involvement does not eliminate the need to resolve material end-user and end-use issues. The review should gather and evaluate relevant facts instead of inventing a convenient record.

Question 14Export Administration Regulations

A company uploads controlled technical files to a shared system. What feature should the review include?

  1. Only whether the server has enough storage space.
  2. Only whether the files are saved as PDFs rather than images.
  3. Only whether the folder name includes the word export.
  4. Who can actually access the information and whether the proposed access is authorized. Correct answer.

Explanation

Information-control review must address the content and the people who can receive it. Storage capacity, labels, and file format do not by themselves determine whether access is legally permitted.

Question 15Export Administration Regulations

A proposed exception does not cover the stated end use. The customer offers to sign a general good-intentions statement. What should the specialist conclude?

  1. Customer intent always overrides a stated restriction.
  2. An invoice discount can cure the authorization problem.
  3. The signature expands the exception to the excluded end use.
  4. The statement does not replace the exception's unmet conditions. Correct answer.

Explanation

An assurance may supply information but cannot rewrite the legal scope of an exception. If an applicable condition is not met, a general promise does not create authorization for the activity.

Question 16Export Administration Regulations

A shipment was reviewed six months ago but has not yet left. A material restriction has since changed. What should be done?

  1. Treat payment already received as a substitute for authorization.
  2. Rely only on the old review date as permanent permission.
  3. Ignore the change if the purchase order date is earlier.
  4. Review the transaction under the currently applicable requirements before release. Correct answer.

Explanation

A past review is not a permanent authorization against later material changes. The release decision must account for requirements applicable to the actual transaction and relevant timing.

Question 17Export Administration Regulations

A specialist records “no license required” after checking the relevant transaction. How does that differ from claiming a license exception?

  1. The conclusions have different legal bases, and an exception requires its own applicable conditions. Correct answer.
  2. The phrases are always interchangeable and need no supporting record.
  3. A license exception is merely a statistical filing exemption.
  4. No license required means no other export obligations can apply.

Explanation

A no-license-required determination and reliance on a license exception are distinct analyses. The record should identify the actual basis rather than using the phrases as interchangeable labels without support.

Question 18Export Administration Regulations

The shipping department receives an approval that lists conditions but displays only the word “approved” in its release screen. What needs improvement?

  1. Remove the conditions from the source approval.
  2. Assume warehouse staff will discover every condition independently.
  3. Make the applicable conditions visible and operationally enforceable before release. Correct answer.
  4. Treat the short screen label as replacing the full approval.

Explanation

An approval's conditions are part of its scope and implementation. A release system should communicate and enforce relevant limits rather than allowing a simplified label to obscure them.

Question 19Export Administration Regulations

A freight forwarder says it will handle transport. What does this establish about the exporter's control analysis?

  1. The forwarder's booking confirmation is an export license.
  2. All export-control decisions automatically transfer to the carrier.
  3. Transport assistance alone does not show that classification and authorization duties have been completed. Correct answer.
  4. The sale can proceed without sharing accurate item information.

Explanation

A forwarder can perform agreed services, but a transport arrangement does not by itself establish complete export-control review or remove the need for accurate transaction information and assigned responsibilities.

Question 20Export Administration Regulations

A company classifies two products together solely because both are called “cameras” in its catalogue. What should be checked?

  1. Whether their retail boxes use the same colour.
  2. Whether the sales team prefers one shared description.
  3. Whether the buyer is willing to accept the same invoice title.
  4. Whether their relevant technical characteristics support the same classification. Correct answer.

Explanation

Broad commercial labels can include technically different products. Classification requires the relevant characteristics and applicable criteria rather than assuming that a shared catalogue name proves identical treatment.

Question 21Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

An AES submission is accepted. The team treats the acceptance as permission to export a restricted item. What distinction is missing?

  1. A statistical filing grants permission for all future shipments of the model.
  2. AES acceptance automatically replaces every license.
  3. Acceptance of export information is separate from any required export authorization. Correct answer.
  4. The exporter's invoice becomes irrelevant after acceptance.

Explanation

AES acceptance concerns submitted export information and does not itself authorize every controlled transaction. Licensing, sanctions, and other applicable requirements still need their own supported review.

Question 22Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

The invoice shows one quantity, the packing list another, and the planned EEI uses a third. What should happen before filing?

  1. Choose the figure used on last month's shipment.
  2. Average the three figures without checking the goods.
  3. Use the smallest number because it appears less risky.
  4. Reconcile the actual shipment information and correct the unsupported figures. Correct answer.

Explanation

Accurate reporting requires resolving inconsistent source information about the actual shipment. Selecting, averaging, or copying figures without verification creates a convenient number rather than a reliable filing basis.

Question 23Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

An agent is asked to file EEI but has neither proper authorization nor needed transaction details. What is appropriate?

  1. Use another customer's authorization as a temporary substitute.
  2. Assume the carrier's pickup request supplies every required authorization.
  3. Obtain the required authority and reliable data before acting as filer. Correct answer.
  4. File using guessed values to secure an early acceptance.

Explanation

An agent needs the applicable authorization and accurate information for its filing role. A transport request, another customer's document, or guessed values does not supply that missing basis.

Question 24Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

A buyer says its routed arrangement eliminates all responsibilities of the U.S. seller. What should the specialist do?

  1. Delete the U.S. party from all records without analysis.
  2. Determine responsibilities from the current FTR and actual arrangement rather than the label alone. Correct answer.
  3. Accept the statement because every routed export has no U.S. duties.
  4. Treat the buyer's Incoterms choice as a complete FTR responsibility determination.

Explanation

A routed arrangement has regulatory definitions and allocated responsibilities that must be applied to the facts. Its label or a trade term alone does not establish that every U.S. responsibility disappears.

Question 25Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

A filer enters an ECCN into a field requiring the statistical commodity classification. What should be corrected?

  1. Change the invoice value until the system accepts the ECCN.
  2. Remove the commodity description to avoid inconsistency.
  3. Treat any alphanumeric classification as valid in every field.
  4. Use the appropriate reporting classification and keep the export-control classification in its proper role. Correct answer.

Explanation

The reporting and export-control classification systems serve different purposes and belong in their appropriate fields. Altering value or removing descriptions does not make a wrong code suitable.

Question 26Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

A transaction is called “low value”, and the team stops checking EEI requirements. What is the problem?

  1. Every shipment described as low value is exempt from all reporting.
  2. Low value automatically removes export licensing restrictions too.
  3. Other mandatory filing provisions or conditions may matter, so the actual rules must be checked. Correct answer.
  4. The sales adjective is itself an official exemption citation.

Explanation

A casual description of value does not establish an applicable reporting exemption. The specialist must evaluate the actual rules, including relevant mandatory provisions and conditions, separately from export licensing.

Question 27Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

After filing, the consignee changes before export. What should the specialist evaluate?

  1. The required filing correction and any separate effect on transaction authorization. Correct answer.
  2. Whether the original acceptance makes consignee identity permanently irrelevant.
  3. Whether the goods can be renamed to avoid updating the record.
  4. Only whether the invoice font still matches.

Explanation

A changed consignee can affect both reporting accuracy and the underlying authorization analysis. The change should be reviewed in each relevant process instead of being hidden behind an earlier acceptance.

Question 28Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

A company keeps only a filing reference and discards the records supporting what was reported. What is the weakness?

  1. The reference automatically contains every source document.
  2. A filing reference proves all reported values were accurate.
  3. Supporting records are unnecessary once the carrier departs.
  4. It may be unable to reconstruct and support the filing and transaction decisions. Correct answer.

Explanation

A reference identifies a filing but does not by itself preserve its supporting evidence. Appropriate records are needed to explain the reported facts and decisions under applicable retention requirements.

Question 29Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

A new clerk copies an old EEI template for a different item because the destination is the same. What should control the data?

  1. Whatever values make the filing identical to the previous one.
  2. The cheapest freight quotation.
  3. The shared destination alone.
  4. Verified facts and classifications for the actual new shipment. Correct answer.

Explanation

A common destination does not make two shipments identical. Item classification, value, quantity, parties, and other required data must accurately reflect the new transaction rather than an old template.

Question 30Foreign Trade Regulations and EEI

An exporter discovers a material error in submitted EEI. What is the appropriate process?

  1. Delete the internal evidence and leave the filing unchanged.
  2. Preserve the facts, assess applicable correction and escalation requirements, and make supported corrections. Correct answer.
  3. Assume an accepted filing cannot be corrected.
  4. Make an unrelated future filing inaccurate to offset the earlier error.

Explanation

A discovered reporting error requires an appropriate correction and review process under the applicable rules. Preserving evidence and assessing scope is more reliable than concealment or a compensating false entry.

Question 31Export compliance programs

A policy says everyone handles compliance, but no one owns classification updates. What improvement is most direct?

  1. Remove classification from the procedure because ownership is unclear.
  2. Assign a responsible role, required evidence, escalation route, and update trigger. Correct answer.
  3. Add a statement that compliance is important without assigning tasks.
  4. Let the last person who edited a spreadsheet decide informally.

Explanation

A workable control assigns ownership and an actionable process. General support for compliance does not ensure that classifications are maintained when a product or applicable rule changes.

Question 32Export compliance programs

Sales staff are rewarded for shipping before unresolved holds are reviewed. What program weakness does this reveal?

  1. Incentives and authority undermine the effectiveness of the release control. Correct answer.
  2. The hold is unnecessary whenever the sale is profitable.
  3. A written policy guarantees the incentive cannot affect behaviour.
  4. Only the colour of the hold notice needs changing.

Explanation

Controls depend on actual authority, incentives, and practice, not merely written language. Rewarding staff for bypassing unresolved reviews can defeat the process that is supposed to prevent improper release.

Question 33Export compliance programs

A screening tool flags a possible match. The analyst clears it with no recorded reason. What is missing?

  1. A rule banning all transactions with similar names.
  2. A guarantee that every flagged name is a true match.
  3. An unrelated copy of the customer's advertising brochure.
  4. Evidence and reasoning sufficient to support and review the clearance. Correct answer.

Explanation

Potential matches require reasoned resolution, and the result should be documented. Without the supporting identifiers and explanation, another reviewer cannot tell whether the clearance was justified.

Question 34Export compliance programs

A company begins sharing engineering designs after years of shipping only finished consumer goods. What should its program do?

  1. Assume its freight-only procedure covers the new activity unchanged.
  2. Treat electronic delivery as outside every export process.
  3. Wait for a violation before considering access controls.
  4. Reassess risks and adapt controls to the new information-transfer activity. Correct answer.

Explanation

A new activity can create materially different export risks and information needs. The program should assess technical-data access and responsibilities instead of assuming that hardware-shipping procedures are sufficient.

Question 35Export compliance programs

An audit confirms a checklist exists but never checks completed transactions. What remains untested?

  1. Whether the policy has an attractive title.
  2. Whether the checklist document can be opened.
  3. Whether all transactions are necessarily lawful because a checklist exists.
  4. Whether the controls actually operated and produced reliable decisions and records. Correct answer.

Explanation

The existence of a procedure is different from evidence that people applied it effectively. Transaction testing can examine implementation, exceptions, documentation, and whether decisions followed the assigned process.

Question 36Export compliance programs

An employee reports a possible past error. What response supports a credible compliance program?

  1. Replace the old record with a cleaner version that conceals the original facts.
  2. Preserve evidence, assess scope, obtain appropriate advice, and determine corrective obligations. Correct answer.
  3. Treat self-reporting as proof that no review is needed.
  4. Tell the employee to stop documenting concerns.

Explanation

A credible response investigates and preserves evidence while determining required action. Reporting an issue is the start of assessment, not permission to conceal records or assume the matter is resolved.

Question 37Export compliance programs

A firm trains only its compliance lawyer, although customer forms are signed by sales staff. What training gap matters?

  1. Training should cover only legal terminology and omit real workflows.
  2. Sales staff need no training if a lawyer exists.
  3. Every salesperson must personally decide all complex legal questions without escalation.
  4. Staff who encounter or act on relevant requests need role-specific recognition and escalation training. Correct answer.

Explanation

People at the point of action need enough training to recognize issues and route them correctly. This does not require them to replace specialists or make every difficult legal determination alone.

Question 38Export compliance programs

A product's classification is updated, but the warehouse system still displays the old value. What needs correction?

  1. The warehouse should choose whichever value speeds dispatch.
  2. Only the spelling of the product's marketing name.
  3. The new decision should be ignored because the old system is familiar.
  4. The information flow and implementation linking the approved record to operational release. Correct answer.

Explanation

A correct decision must reach the systems and people that act on it. An outdated operational record can undermine implementation even when the central classification file has been properly updated.

Question 39Export compliance programs

A distributor changes ownership after onboarding. What should the program consider?

  1. Whether the change requires updated due diligence and restriction analysis. Correct answer.
  2. Whether paying invoices on time alone resolves ownership-related issues.
  3. Whether the original onboarding permanently clears all future owners.
  4. Whether the firm's logo stayed the same.

Explanation

Material ownership changes can affect relevant risk and restrictions. A program should identify when to refresh due diligence rather than treating initial onboarding as permanent clearance regardless of changed facts.

Question 40Export compliance programs

A release decision says “approved” but does not identify the item version, parties, or supporting review. What is the main record problem?

  1. A release decision must always contain the entire regulations in full.
  2. The word approved proves the shipment has been licensed by the government.
  3. The approval cannot be reliably tied to the transaction facts and basis it was meant to cover. Correct answer.
  4. Every short approval is automatically unlawful regardless of supporting records elsewhere.

Explanation

The record should connect an approval to the relevant transaction and supporting analysis. The issue is traceability, not a demand to reproduce all regulations or assume a government license from one word.

Question 41Export Administration Regulations

A classification worksheet first asks whether the item is subject to the EAR. Why does this precede selecting an ECCN?

  1. Jurisdiction determines whether the EAR classification framework applies. Correct answer.
  2. Every article must receive both a USML category and an ECCN.
  3. Jurisdiction is relevant only after a license is issued.
  4. An ECCN determines who manufactured the item.

Explanation

An ECCN is meaningful within the EAR framework. Determine the applicable jurisdiction before applying classification and transaction requirements under that framework.

Question 42Export Administration Regulations

An ECCN entry controls equipment above a stated performance parameter. The product is below that parameter but has other relevant functions. What is the sound classification method?

  1. Classify from the destination country alone.
  2. Use the code with the lowest commercial tariff.
  3. Assign EAR99 solely from the first parameter examined.
  4. Review the complete applicable entry, related notes, and order of review. Correct answer.

Explanation

A single parameter may not exhaust the relevant entry or other controls. A supported classification follows the applicable order, technical criteria, and notes.

Question 43Export Administration Regulations

In ECCN structure, what does the letter distinguishing equipment from software or technology help identify?

  1. The product group within the control category. Correct answer.
  2. The destination’s geographic region.
  3. The statistical unit of quantity.
  4. The exporter’s license-expiration month.

Explanation

ECCN organization separates product groups such as equipment, software, and technology. This supports finding the correct type of controlled item within a category.

Question 44Export Administration Regulations

A processor and its operating software are shipped together. What classification assumption should be avoided?

  1. Considering the software’s relevant capabilities.
  2. Assuming the software automatically has the same classification as the hardware. Correct answer.
  3. Reviewing any applicable software notes.
  4. Recording a separate analysis where appropriate.

Explanation

Hardware, software, and technology can have distinct control entries and relevant notes. A bundled sale does not make all components share one classification automatically.

Question 45Export Administration Regulations

A technical file contains manufacturing know-how, while a brochure gives only basic marketing descriptions. What is the key distinction for EAR review?

  1. The actual information and applicable technology definitions, not merely the file format. Correct answer.
  2. Marketing staff determine jurisdiction by choosing a title.
  3. All PDF files are controlled technology.
  4. Only printed information can be technology.

Explanation

Technology analysis concerns the information and regulatory definitions. A file extension or department label alone does not establish whether the material is controlled.

Question 46Export Administration Regulations

A U.S.-origin item abroad is proposed for shipment from one foreign country to another. Which concept is directly relevant?

  1. First import into the United States.
  2. EEI correction by definition.
  3. Reexport. Correct answer.
  4. Domestic U.S. retail sale only.

Explanation

Foreign-to-foreign movement can constitute a reexport under the EAR. Location abroad does not by itself eliminate relevant U.S. export-control obligations.

Question 47Export Administration Regulations

An EAR-controlled item abroad changes end user within the same country. What should the review consider?

  1. Automatic exemption because no border is crossed.
  2. A new country-of-origin marking as a substitute for permission.
  3. Transfer-in-country requirements and applicable authorization conditions. Correct answer.
  4. Only the international freight rate.

Explanation

Controls can concern changes of use or user within a country. Absence of a new international border crossing does not alone resolve applicable requirements.

Question 48Export Administration Regulations

A foreign-made assembly contains U.S.-origin content. What is the appropriate jurisdictional question?

  1. Whether relevant de minimis or other EAR scope rules make it subject to the EAR. Correct answer.
  2. Whether its foreign brand automatically removes U.S. jurisdiction.
  3. Whether the invoice currency is U.S. dollars.
  4. Whether final assembly abroad automatically prevents any U.S.-content rule from applying.

Explanation

Foreign-made items need the applicable scope analysis, including relevant U.S.-content and other rules. Brand, currency, and packaging origin are not substitutes for that analysis.

Question 49Export Administration Regulations

An analyst tests foreign-made goods only for U.S. physical content. What additional concept may matter under the EAR?

  1. Applicable foreign-direct-product rules. Correct answer.
  2. Only the destination’s sales tax.
  3. The buyer’s preferred currency conversion.
  4. Whether the carrier advertises U.S. service.

Explanation

Certain foreign-produced items can be subject to EAR foreign-direct-product rules. A scope analysis cannot always end with the amount of incorporated physical content.

Question 50Export Administration Regulations

A developer gives a foreign person access to controlled technology in the United States. What issue can arise even without an overseas shipment?

  1. Automatic EAR99 status for the technology.
  2. A deemed export through release of technology. Correct answer.
  3. An EEI filing that independently authorizes the access.
  4. Only a domestic transportation issue.

Explanation

Release of controlled technology to a foreign person can raise deemed-export requirements. Physical shipment overseas is not the only event requiring analysis.