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Export Control

You ask whether a commercial item your business might send out of the United States may need an export license.

People come here to

  • Ask if a commercial item needs a license
  • Screen an item that may leave the country
  • Start an export license question

Have ready

  • Item description
  • Business name
  • Destination country, if known

Tasks you can file

GovOS records the packet. A live agency system is not connected in this demo.

  • Federal

    Ask about an export license

    Ask whether a commercial item your business might send out of the United States may need an export license.

    12 min · Bureau of Industry and Security

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