Last week in Geneva, a deal was struck between Iran and six world powers, including the U.S. and the European Union, to relax global trade restrictions on cars, petrochemicals, aviation parts, gold, and insurance for oil cargoes. Additionally, Iran will be permitted to continue exporting oil at current levels instead of forcing further reductions.

The owner of two New Jersey defense contracting businesses was arraigned this week for allegedly transmitting military blueprints to India without a license, a major violation of U.S. export laws.

Xylem Inc, a leading global water technology company, needed a simple to use, flexible, fully automated screening solution that also managed its export and import data and could be deployed quickly without costly software or hardware. Xylem turned to Amber Road’s Export On-Demand solution to automate all aspects of export compliance for 300 worldwide users across 150 countries.

Xylem implemented Export On-Demand, a cloud based system, with five separate ERP systems across its global business units in fewer than three weeks. The flexible, on-demand solution covers all key export compliance capabilities, including maintaining reference data, screening trade parties, producing documentation and providing audit trails.

Regulatory agencies are bearing down on exporters, while there’s a growing need to align compliance and logistics operations. This means export teams need to be involved early and substantially in discussions about new products, new markets or acquisitions.

Please join American Shipper, BPE Global and Amber Road for a complimentary webinar broadcasting live on Wednesday, October 23 at 2:00pm EDT entitled A Place at the Table – Bringing the Export Team into Strategic Discussions.

Regulatory agencies are bearing down on exporters while there’s a growing need to align compliance and logistics operations functions in the export process. This means export teams need to be involved in discussions about new products, new markets, or new acquisitions.

American Shipper’s fourth annual Export Operations and Compliance Benchmark Study: A Place at the Strategic Table examines the extent to which export teams have a place at a strategic table. Of the 262 respondents, many find themselves excluded from key strategic considerations, despite the ramifications that presents to an export program.

Join us this Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 from 2PM – 3:15 PM EST for a complimentary webinar as speakers Suzanne Bullitt, a Certified U.S. Export Compliance Officer and Trade Compliance Director at Invensys, and Kristine Bols, Director of Trade Content at Amber Road examine:

Export classification is a complex, layered process, but the obligation of proper declaration falls to the U.S. exporter, and the definition of ‘export’ is wide, so mastering it is vital.

Join Invensys, Amber Road and the Journal of Commerce on Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 from 2PM – 3:15 PM EST for a complimentary webinar as we examine the challenges of classification in the U.S., the intricacies of the U.S. Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) system, key tips and best practices for dealing with technical data, and the role of automation.

Oxbow Carbon LLC needed a solution to help to transport and sell the petroleum products they create into markets where they could be used to produce aluminum, steel, and other critical products for the world economy. Oxbow signed on with for Amber Road’s Export On-Demand solution late last year, and the company has already increased its restricted party screening productivity by 82 percent.

Now, Oxbow is able to centralize and automate its export compliance processes across 90 countries and screen against over 250 lists. Using Amber Road’s hosted technology, Oxbow consolidated 13 ERP systems into one common database portal, creating a simplified and efficient trade compliance process.

The US will soon begin exporting “fracked” liquefied natural gas (LNG) abroad. Fracking, a technique used to extract oil, has put the country in a position to become a major gas exporter. The Energy Department has recently approved the first LNG export proposal and is now in the process of reviewing 20 others.

Many companies have already started preparing to export LNG. A $20 billion project to prepare an export terminal for LNG is currently underway in Louisiana. The terminal was originally designed to import natural gas, but is instead becoming an export terminal due to US gas becoming abundant and relatively cheap. Another terminal in Texas that was originally constructed to import gas has been investing in systems to liquefy gas ready for export. Once completed, the terminal is expected to export nearly 20 million tons of LNG a year.