SUP-06Edition 1.0 · November 2026
Export Control in Purchase Orders & Contracts
What to ask for, what you are told, and what you agree to
A step-by-step method for non-US companies buying US-origin items — to tell, in every order and contract, which sentence is information, which one is a regulatory requirement, and which one is a promise they are choosing to make.
What this guide settles
- A contract does not create jurisdiction or authorization: it records information, transmits regulatory conditions, and creates obligations that can be wider than the regulation
- Duties follow roles, not labels: the applicant, licensee and exporter owe the notices that really exist — “the supplier” owes none as such
- Read every clause by its legal effect — notice, representation, condition, contract-only or mixed — and never sign what you cannot control
- Regulatory permission is not contractual permission; flow-down is not automatic; delivery does not necessarily end the obligation
What you get
- The guide: explanations, method, conditions and limits
- Worked examples: five legal effects of one sentence, the notices that really exist and who owes them, STA across all three categories, the usual clauses, a composite case, a commented real case (First Call International) and ten pitfalls
- Tools printed in the guide: four templates, including a clause reading grid and a contractual obligations register, and a readiness check
- Sources with section references and their verification date
- Revisions included for 12 months
Printed tools: T1 · Transaction and roles sheet · T2 · Graduated request list · T3 · Clause reading grid · T4 · Contractual obligations register · Readiness check
Contents
- Before you start: scope and limits
- Why the contract matters
- The rule in one page
- What you are told — the notices that really exist
- The method in six steps
- Templates T1 to T4
- Ten pitfalls
- Case study: regulatory permission, contractual permission
- Readiness check
What it does not cover
- Defence agreements and their provisions
- Sanctions clauses
- Buying through distributors, and supplier changes
Assumed knowledge. How to request classification information, what you sign in an end-user certificate, and how to read a licence you work under.
Sample pages
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Where it connects
End-User Certificates
Export Control in Purchase Orders & Contracts reads what you promise between parties; End-User Certificates covers what you sign as licence support.
SUP-04Working Under a Supplier’s BIS License
Working Under a Supplier’s BIS License reads the licence you received; Export Control in Purchase Orders & Contracts reads the clauses that transmit it — or go beyond it.
Part of a collection
Export Control in Purchase Orders & Contracts is one of the eight guides of Suppliers & Procurement (Manage Transactions), available together at €390 instead of €89 each.