SUP-04Edition 1.0 · November 2026

Working Under a Supplier’s BIS License

Know what was authorized, what applies to you, and what happens next

A step-by-step method for non-US companies that receive EAR-controlled items under a licence held by someone else — to establish what the evidence shows, which conditions reach them, and when another authorization is needed.

A4 PDF · 21 pages · English · 4 templates · regulatory references checked November 2026

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What this guide settles

  • What you hold is evidence, not the licence: a full copy, an extract, a notice, a number and an invoice with a DCS prove different things
  • Identify the licensee first — a foreign principal party in interest shares responsibility — and read the scope where it lives, narrowed by conditions
  • Outside the baseline is not automatically prohibited: test §750.7(c)(1), then NLR, licence exceptions or another authorization — and value tolerance is not quantity tolerance
  • Expiry governs the initial licensed transaction, not every later one; conditions get an owner and end only on a documented basis

What you get

  • The guide: explanations, method, conditions and limits
  • Worked examples: what each piece of evidence proves, permitted changes under §750.7(c)(1), export rules in reexport and transfer contexts, a composite case, a commented real case (Al-Mashan) and ten pitfalls
  • Tools printed in the guide: four templates, including a conditions register and a next-activity decision log, and a readiness check
  • Sources with section references and their verification date
  • Revisions included for 12 months

Printed tools: T1 · Licence evidence sheet · T2 · Authorization map · T3 · Conditions register · T4 · Next-activity decision log · Readiness check

Contents

  1. Before you start: scope and limits
  2. Why it matters to the recipient
  3. The rule in one page
  4. The licence, element by element
  5. The method in six steps
  6. Templates T1 to T4
  7. Ten pitfalls
  8. Case study: three requests
  9. Readiness check

What it does not cover

  • Applying for your own reexport or transfer (in-country) licence
  • A licence that cannot be found, or a supplier that does not answer
  • Items integrated into a product made outside the United States

Assumed knowledge. How your items are classified, what a reexport and a transfer (in-country) are, and what you signed to support the licence, if anything.

Sample pages

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The rule in one page: where the scope lives, what reaches you
The rule in one page: where the scope lives, what reaches you
Changes the EAR allow without a replacement licence
Changes the EAR allow without a replacement licence
Template T3: conditions register
Template T3: conditions register
Case study: three requests, and a real case
Case study: three requests, and a real case

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Where it connects

SUP-06

Export Control in Purchase Orders & Contracts

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.

SUP-05

Missing Licenses

Working Under a Supplier’s BIS License starts from licence evidence in hand; Missing Licenses starts when that evidence cannot be found.

ITAR-01

Reading a DSP-5

Working Under a Supplier’s BIS License reconstructs an EAR authorization held by someone else; Reading a DSP-5 reads an ITAR licence’s scope, parties and provisos.

EAR-06

EAR License Exceptions

Working Under a Supplier’s BIS License tells you when an activity falls outside the licence; EAR License Exceptions tests whether an exception covers it instead.

Part of a collection

Working Under a Supplier’s BIS License is one of the eight guides of Suppliers & Procurement (Manage Transactions), available together at €390 instead of €89 each.

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