U.S. Export Compliance

This information is intended as a quick reference guide briefly summarizing the U.S. Export Control Laws (as defined below). This summary is not authoritative and is not a thorough restatement of those laws. If you have any questions about U.S. Export Control Laws, contact your attorney.

SAE Industry Technologies Consortia ("SAE ITC") is proud to have a network of members, volunteers and authors from around the world. Through this network, each year, SAE ITC publishes many technical papers, engineering standards and books, offers a wide array of professional development opportunities, hosts numerous meetings and exhibits worldwide and provides local networking opportunities. As a U.S.-based, non-profit organization, SAE ITC takes seriously its obligations to comply with U.S. Export Control Laws, including the trade embargoes administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (the "OFAC Regulations"), the Export Administration Regulations (the "EAR") and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (the "ITAR") (collectively, "U.S. Export Control Laws"). Awareness of these U.S. Export Control Laws is particularly important for those SAE ITC members, volunteers and authors who prepare publications or other materials for SAE ITC. This page serves

• The OFAC Regulations: The OFAC Regulations limit or prohibit most trade with specific countries, individuals and entities. However, SAE is able to offer access to most SAE materials and member benefits to all of its members, including to members in the OFAC sanctioned countries of Cuba, Iran and Sudan.
• The EAR and the ITAR: The EAR govern "dual use" technologies - those technologies that are mainly designed for commercial or civilian uses but that can also have military applications. The ITAR govern military technologies - "munitions items," sometimes called defense articles and defense services, listed on the U.S. Munitions List.
• SAE ITC's openly available and published standards are not subject to ITAR and EAR regulations. As a professional engineering society, SAE ITC itself does not develop or use any information, technologies or commodities controlled under the EAR or the ITAR. As such, SAE ITC's openly available and published standards are not subject to ITAR and EAR regulations. SAE ITC realizes, however, that many of its individual members, volunteers and authors, and their companies, may develop or use technologies or commodities controlled under the EAR or the ITAR. SAE ITC expects that such individuals will comply with the EAR or the ITAR, as applicable, before sending or disclosing such publications or materials to SAE ITC. Before SAE ITC may accept or use any contribution from a member, volunteer or author, the individual shall certify in writing that such contribution is not controlled under the EAR or the ITAR. Each individual who offers such a contribution to SAE ITC shall sign a copyright or similar transfer of right form incorporating a certification substantially similar to the following:
  • "I certify that, to the best of my knowledge and information, the enclosed information, technology or commodity is NOT controlled for export from the United States to any non-U.S. person or any other nation under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (22 CFR Parts 120-130) or the Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR Parts 730-774) and, accordingly, may be modified, used, copied, distributed or circulated by SAE Industry Technologies Consortia, in whole or in part, without any export licenses under the foregoing regulations."

SAE ITC members, volunteers and authors should regularly monitor the U.S. Export Control Laws. SAE ITC reserves the right to update this page and SAE ITC's policies and procedures as necessary. This summary is for purposes of convenience only and is not an authoritative summary of U.S. Export Control Laws.