International Import Certificate/ Delivery Verification System

International Import Certificate/ Delivery Verification System

Summary of International Import Certificate/ Delivery Verification System

A control mechanism established by certain Western countries to prevent diversion of strategic commodities to communist-bloc countries. The system was devised by COCOM (read this and related legal terms for further details), an informal working group of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and the Benelux countries established in 1949 to control strategic exports to communist states; the original group has been expanded to include Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Turkey, Norway, Denmark, Portugal, and Japan. The system is based upon an agreement among the adhering states that they will monitor the importation and disposition of strategic commodities exported under license by any other signatory state. The principal documentary controls are the international import certificate, issued by the importing country upon request, confirming that that government will exercise control over the named commodities and will undertake to prevent unlawful diversions; and the delivery verification certificate, issued after actual importation of the restricted merchandise, certifying that the goods have actually been accounted for or disposed of as specified in the issuing country’s export license. The second document is required on a selective basis by the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Export Administration.

See Export Control Act, Export Control Statement.

(Main Author: William J. Miller)


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