Export controls
What we operate under, what it means for you, and why a demo is treated with the same seriousness as a delivery.
The regime we work inside.
S32 Technologies is a United States company. Our products and the technical data behind them fall under U.S. export-control law, principally the Export Administration Regulations, and where applicable the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Classification, licensing and jurisdiction are assessed per capability not assumed for the portfolio.
For a prospective customer, the practical effect is that the answer to “can you sell us this” is sometimes not ours alone to give. Where a license is required, it is obtained before anything moves, and a pending license is not a reason to proceed informally in the meantime.
Transfers that do not feel like transfers
This is where most well-intentioned organizations get caught. Export control is not about shipping boxes, and treating it that way is how a compliance failure happens in a meeting room.
A demonstration
Showing a restricted capability to a foreign person is a transfer of technical data, whether it happens on their site, ours, or a screen share.
Training
Teaching someone to operate or maintain a controlled item is a controlled service, regardless of where the classroom is.
Technical assistance
Debugging, tuning or advising on a deployment can constitute a transfer even when no software changes hands.
Software or hardware
The obvious case: shipping, licensing, or granting download access to a controlled item.
Access by a foreign national
A deemed export can happen inside our own building. Nationality of personnel is part of the review for exactly this reason.
Retransfer
An approved customer passing capability onward is a separate control question, which is why retransfer terms are contractual.
Nothing proceeds without documented authorization
No foreign demonstration, training, technical assistance, software transfer, hardware transfer or operational support proceeds without documented authorization. There is no informal tier, no exception for a friendly jurisdiction, and no version of this that gets waived because a deadline is close.
That rule is why an early conversation with us may move more slowly than you expect. The screening is doing work before anyone has agreed to anything, and we would rather spend that time up front than discover the problem after a commitment exists.
The other screens that run in parallel
Sanctions and restricted parties
Screening against applicable sanctions regimes and restricted-party lists, refreshed through the life of the relationship, not done once at signature.
Beneficial ownership
Institution, named officials, intermediaries and ultimate ownership, because the entity on the contract is not always the entity with control.
Anti-corruption
FCPA and equivalent controls, including source of funds and the role of any agent or intermediary in the transaction.
Tell us early
If you know your jurisdiction, procurement route or end use is going to raise a question, tell us at the start. It is the fastest path to a real answer, and an early no is worth more to both of us than a slow maybe.