VISUAL COMPLIANCE

The Tools You Need For U.S. Export Controls

The MSR Visual Compliance™ system provides you with the tools you need to ensure that your company avoids the huge costs of non-compliance. Efficient and easy-to-use, Visual Compliance is loaded with features — everything you need to verify your export transactions and stay on top of Export Customs Compliance.

THE TOOLS YOU NEED

Visual Compliance™ tools guide you in the right direction, in both the areas of controlled goods and denied persons monitoring.

  • Restricted Party Screening
  • ECCN Search and Drilldown by Category/Group
  • Commerce Control List (CCL) Search
  • CCL License Determination, Requirements/Exceptions, and Items Controlled, with Reason Codes
  • Print/E-mail Audit Trail
  • Comprehensive Searchable Government Documents Library
  • Government Contacts List and Resources

Since its launch two years ago, Visual Compliance™ has become the premiere export compliance service through our commitment to constant product improvement, obsession with maintaining up-to-date and accurate information, and superior customer service. Visual Compliance™ content is updated daily, direct from official U.S. government sources.

THE INFORMATION YOU NEED

Visual Compliance™ contains an extensive database of regulations, in an easy, searchable format. Searches include:

  • EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS (EAR)
    Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)
  • OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL (OFAC) REGULATIONS
    U.S. Treasury Department
  • DIRECTORATE (and its OFFICES) OF DEFENSE TRADE CONTROLS, INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC IN ARMS REGULATIONS (ITAR)
    U.S. State Department
  • FEDERAL REGISTER RULES AND NOTICES
    National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
  • THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
    U.S. Senate Banking Committee

The Visual Compliance™ verification system has been overwhelmingly chosen by the experts as the easiest and most comprehensive compliance tool available to the export compliance industry.

DEMONSTRATE DUE DILIGENCE

Web-based to provide accessibility and the most current data available, Visual Compliance™ is updated daily, directly from official U.S. government sources.

Visual Compliance™ uses Password Security to allow you to both audit your users and their results, as well as to send electronic messages; for example to automatically email you your search results!

RESTRICTED PARTY SCREENING

Visual Compliance™ comprehensive Restricted Party Screening allows you to screen against the four main government lists: ITAR, BIS, EAR and OFAC/BIS, together with other smaller official lists and Federal Register Orders. Specifically, these include:

  • Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Sanctions
  • Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Denied Persons List
  • Department of Commerce BIS Entity List and Unverified List
  • Department of State Arms Export Control Act Debarred Parties
  • Department of State Designated Terrorist Organizations
  • Department of State Nonproliferation Orders: Missile Sanctions

Optional services to screen against a comprehensive inventory of U.S. law enforcement, military, public service (including General Services Administration), banking, and international lists (including Japan Foreign End-Users of Concern and Interpol) are also available.

Visual Compliance™ Restricted Party Screening is versatile. Use the Advanced Search feature to quickly and easily refine your search. Search your lists —

  • By Name
  • By Company
  • By City and/or Country

Searches may be set as Exact, Fuzzy, or Phonetic. Search results include warnings based on the closeness of combine criteria to the match. Whether or not results are returned, an audit trail screen is presented which you can print or e-mail to yourself. As well, separate lists of recent additions and removals for both Denied Parties and GSA Procurement are provided.

ECCN ASSISTANT AND LICENSE DETERMINATION

The ECCN Assistant automates the classification and retrieval of the Export Control Classified Number.

Powerful search tools help you sift through large amounts of data, to help you quickly pinpoint exactly what you need. Results are returned in a concise and easy-to-understand format. The data is clearly presented in section-defined, scrollable text boxes.

Use the valuable License Determination Assistant to find out if you need a license ... before it's too late!

Provides clear, concise explanations for the controls in effect for specific countries and commodities, calculating your requirements based on the Commerce Control List (CCL) Reasons for Control given for an ECCN, and the Controls in effect for the country of destination defined by the CCL Country Chart.

COMPLETE ACCESS TO REGULATIONS

Access comprehensive reference material quickly, using powerful search tools that return the specifics you require quickly and accurately.

Start with a keyword search and drill-down. Visual Compliance™ gives you the tools to make your search as broad or as narrow as you require. Results are listed in a clear, concise manner, so you can access quickly the information you need quickly and accurately.

Visual Compliance™ contains a vast store of official reference material, including the federal regulations, rules and notices that apply to your specific commodities, with a convenient recent changes summary from all agencies, updated daily from official government sources to ensure that you always have the most current information available.

THE RESOURCES YOU NEED

In addition to providing regulatory information, Visual Compliance™ provides you with a wide number of customs contacts, including links to government agencies, licensing authorities and other regulatory bodies.

MULTIPLE DEPLOYMENT OPTIONS

  1. Web Screening
    — Staff perform queries via the internet/intranet
    • Prospective customers
    • Visitors to sensitive areas
    • Exports
  2. Bulk Processing
    — Efficient and effective way to screen large amounts of data:
    • Quick initial verification
    • Elegant solution for miscellaneous systems
    • Data files can be screened quickly
  3. Integrated
    — Technologically relevant and offers flexible implementation strategies.
    • Standard implementation across platforms
    • Data always current
    • Real Time screening and validation

For more information — and to see more for yourself — visit Visual Compliance™.


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