Strategies, Tools & Talent for What’s Next! In our final session of the series, we’ll focus on setting your organization – and your career – up for success in the year ahead. We’ll discuss how compliance drives business impact, how…
CSMS: There’s a new DDTC element in AES
CSMS: There’s a new DDTC element in AES
This Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) new data element collection will help ensure that only commodities that have been determined to be controlled in USML Category XXI by the Director of DDTC’s Office of Defense Trade Controls Policy can be declared as such in AES. As a result of this new data element, a new response message “Response Code: 5C2 CAT XXI DETERMINATION NBR UNKNOWN” was created.
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