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BIS Unverified List Search

Check a foreign party against the Bureau of Industry and Security's Unverified List. The same search covers 14 more export and sanctions lists, with fuzzy matching on by default.

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Free scored matches on screen. A timestamped PDF screening record is $9.99, one-time, no account.

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BIS Unverified List

US Bureau of Industry and Security Unverified List: foreign parties whose bona fides BIS could not verify in an end-use check.

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Loaded daily from the International Trade Administration's Consolidated Screening List. A result is a name match against the published list at the time of the search, not an export authorisation.

About the List

What You Need to Know

What the Unverified List is

The Unverified List is Supplement No. 6 to part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations. It names foreign parties whose bona fides BIS could not verify, usually because an end-use check could not be completed.

A UVL party needs extra steps, not a ban

Exports to a listed party are not prohibited outright, but licence exceptions are not available for them, and for many exports you must obtain a signed statement from the party before shipping. The rule is section 744.15 of the EAR.

Parties come off the list

BIS removes parties once it completes a check, so screen at the time of each transaction rather than relying on an old result. Plans re-screen saved parties every day.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

The BIS Entity List, Unverified List, Military End-User List and Denied Persons List, the State Department's ITAR Debarred List and Nonproliferation Sanctions, and the OFAC lists. We load them daily from the Consolidated Screening List published by the International Trade Administration. Every search also covers the EU, UN, UK, Canadian and Swiss sanctions lists.
No. A screening tells you whether a party appears on the lists at the time of the search. Whether an export needs a licence also depends on the item's classification, the destination and the end use. Licensing questions go to BIS, DDTC or your trade counsel.
The entry's name, aliases, addresses and score, plus the licence requirement and licence review policy the list publishes for that party.
The Export Administration Regulations require records of export transactions to be kept for five years (15 CFR 762.6). The PDF report and a plan's search log both record what was searched, against which lists, and when.
No. We do not load the Department of Homeland Security's UFLPA Entity List, so a search here does not check it.
The search is free with no signup. A PDF record of one screening is $9.99, one-time. Plans start at $49 a month, record every search, run batch CSV files and re-screen saved parties daily, with a 14-day trial and no card.

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A plan records every search, runs batch CSV files and re-screens saved parties daily against the Unverified List and every other list we load, from $49/month with a 14-day trial.

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