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Import/Export Compliance Career Purity Test

Murphy's Law states that "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Take the below purity test to objectively quantify just how much this law has applied in your own import/export compliance career. Be aware this test is mostly centered around U.S. import/export compliance regulations and practices.

Click the below boxes which are applicable to you, count them and check your score against the legend below.

0 - First Day On The Job

1-10 - Wet Behind The Ears

11-20 - Aspiring

21-30 - Been Around The Block

31-40 - Seen Some, Er, Stuff

41-50 - Battered

51-60 - Questioning Your Life Choices

61-70 - BIS, CBP And The DDTC Have A Betting Pool Of When You'll Cross Their Radar Next

71-80 - You Frighten Little Children

81-90 - Chaotic Neutral On The Dungeons & Dragons Alignment Chart

91-99 - Legend

100 - Time To Retire

Sorry phone users, it's a bit easier to take this test on a PC or laptop.

And yes, an automatically-graded test would be great but that's more work than I'm willing to put into this at this time.

Choices

You assigned an incorrect HTS Code on a CF 7501

You have been locked out of ACE

You have received a CF28

You have received a CF29

You have received a CF29 where CBP issued an incorrect action

You received a CF29 where CBP issued an incorrect action and you didn't dispute it

You undervalued an item on a shipment

You overvalued an item on a shipment

You improperly claimed duty-free treatment under a non-USMCA free trade agreement

You improperly claimed duty-free treatment under Chapter 98

You improperly claimed duty-free treatment under USMCA

You committed a violation related to a foreign trade zone

You found CF 7501 errors after the final liquidation date

You submitted a post summary correction

You improperly filed a duty drawback claim

You imported items marked with the wrong country of origin

You improperly stated that something subject to antidumping/countervailing duties actually was not subject

CBP instructed you to destroy an imported shipment

You have had items seized by US Customs

You failed the US customs broker's exam

You let your US customs broker's license expire

You accidentally allowed your customs bond to expire

One of your company's import shipments was used to smuggle drugs

Non-import/export compliance person blatantly disregarded your instructions

Sales lied to you and you believed them

You made a mistake which your customer or consignee caught and corrected you on

You missed a critical Federal Register update

You unnecessarily stopped a shipment

You used a paper copy of regulations which were out-of-date, causing you to make an error

Your restricted party screening service provider's server went down, impacting shipping and/or order processing

Outside counsel gave you inaccurate information

You assigned an incorrect Schedule B Number on an EEI filing

You incorrectly used an EAR exemption

You incorrectly utilized the fundamental research exclusion

You blocked a transaction that you thought was a potential violation but was actually compliant

Had an export license application returned without action

Received an export license, but had to reapply because you had entered some incorrect information (ex. address)

BIS rejected your export license application

You held up a sale or shipment because you forgot to apply for an export license

You were responsible for a violation of a non-US country's export regulations

Your employer has been mentioned in BIS' Don't Let This Happen To You

Your employer makes the news for an export violation

Fellow employee jailed for export violations

Employer fined for export violations

Clif Burns made fun of your employer in the Export Law Blog

Distributor shipped to an embargoed country

Your employer's items were being used in an embargoed country

A citizen of an embargoed country was hired without import/export compliance awareness

An employee sent export-controlled information via e-mail without an export license

Controlled technology was stored in areas that foreign nationals could access it

Technical data was stored in areas that foreign nationals could access it

You had a direct match for a restricted party

You shipped to a restricted party

A non-US person made a visual inspection of a defense article in one of your facilities

Your employer's items were being used by someone on the Entity List

You visited, for business purposes, an entity later placed on the Entity List

Worked for an entity that was or is on the Entity List

Distributor shipped to a restricted party

DDTC rejected your export license application

You incorrectly used an ITAR exemption

You should have been ITAR-registered, but weren't

You missed one of the reporting steps for a TAA

You assigned an incorrect USML Code (subcategory)

You accidentally let your employer's ITAR registration lapse

You had a shipment of defense articles routed through a 126.1 country

You registered with the DDTC but used the wrong registration type

You requested a commodity jurisdiction and didn't specify to make it non-public

Your employer acquired a company without telling import/export compliance

You have disclosed an export violation of a company you acquired (successor liability)

Your employer was kicked out of C-TPAT

Your employer was kicked out of ISA

Your employer received an unscheduled visit from OEE

The US government contacted you because an item you shipped was found being used against US troops

US government visited your customer and it didn't go well

US government visited your facility and it didn't go well

You have been on a first-name basis with your local OEE officer, but not for a good reason

The government gave a presentation at your site and then used it as evidence against you

Your employer was raided by the FBI for export compliance reasons

A shipment the CEO was watching had an import/export-related issue

An executive speaks to you like they understand import/export compliance better than you

Executive management told you something to the effect of 'It's an acceptable level of risk'

Management overruled you to push a shipment out the door

One of your offices complained about you to management

Your boss thinks they know import/export compliance better than you

Your employer had dawn raid binders scattered around one or more of their offices

DDTC made you file a direct disclosure

You accidentally wrote something incriminating in e-mail

You had a verbal conversation in order to avoid a paper trail

You have filed a voluntary self-disclosure

You have sent an e-mail labeled attorney-client privilege

You have written a document including the words 'Based on the facts presented'

You said something to a federal government employee which you later regretted

Fired by a company with a horrible compliance culture

Voluntarily left a company with a horrible compliance culture

Worked for an entity under a consent agreement

You discovered a violation for which you did not file a VSD

You have been in a 'Check The Box' compliance program

Your employer didn't keep good records

Your employer was under receivership

You worked for a company which got acquired and then were laid off