What type of activities may trigger export controls requirements?
In order to ensure compliance with export controls, it is important for university personnel to identify when their activities may trigger export controls.
Research that may trigger Export Controls:
- Military or defense articles
- Dual use technologies (technologies that have both military and commercial application)
- Encryption technology
- Chemical and biological weapons
- Select bio-agents, pathogens, viruses, and toxins
- Space technology, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellites
- Sensors
- Coatings
- Medical lasers
Activities that may trigger Export Controls:
- Traveling out of the U.S. with high tech equipment, confidential, unpublished or proprietary information
- Traveling with laptop computers, web-enabled cell phones and other personal equipment
- Use of third party export controlled technology or equipment
- Sponsored research containing contractual restrictions on publication or dissemination
- Providing financial support/international financial transactions
- International collaborations and presentations
- International field work
- Foreign (non-U.S.) visitors
- Shipping into or out of the U.S.
Countries that may trigger Export Controls:
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- China
- Crimean region of Ukraine
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Iran
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Libya
- North Korea
- Oman
- Qatar
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Syria
- United Arab Emirates
- Venezuela
- Yemen
See Also
- What are Export Controls?
- About the NDSU Export Controls Program
- How can export controls impact my research at NDSU?
- As a PI, what should I consider in determining if export controls regulations might impact my research?
- What happens if a proposed project falls outside the “fundamental research” exclusion and is, thus, subject to export controls restrictions?
- Export Control Policy
- What kinds of projects raise export control questions?