The Chemical Weapon Convention (CWC) establishes a verification regime (e.g., declaration requirements, on-site inspections, and trade restrictions) for weapons-related toxic chemicals and precursors that have peaceful applications. BIS CWC regulations require a U.S. industry exceeding certain chemical activity thresholds to submit declarations and reports. BIS processes, validates, and aggregates the declarations and reports, to develop the U.S. CWC Industrial Declaration, which is forwarded to the State Department, within time frames mandated under the CWC, and to submit it to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Number of industrial base surveys, data, and analysis distributed to federal agencies and critical sector

This performance indicator captures the number of Export Enforcement deterrence actions, cases resulting in a prevention of a violation, criminal or administrative actions, and administrative settlement orders. The number will reflect the actual number and type of preventive enforcement actions conducted, including: detentions of suspect exports, seizures of unauthorized shipments, industry outreach, issuance of warning letters, recommended denials of license applications based on enforcement concerns, and recommendations for parties to be added to the Entity List and Unverified List.

The Information Triage Unit (ITU), for which Export Enforcement (EE) provides the majority of intelligence product outputs, drafts bona fides information reports on foreign transaction parties to license applications. The reports are requested at the direction of a licensing officer or may be self-selected by EE. EE must, within the established Executive Order (EO) timeframe, complete such reports in 10 days from referral to enable timely interagency review of license applications. This metric is designed to measure the effectiveness of BIS in meeting the target of completing 90% of ITU reports produced by EE within 10 days of referral.

Number of industrial base surveys, data, and analysis distributed to federal agencies and critical sector

This indicator evaluates how effective the BIS export control system is in ensuring items exported and reported as electronic export information transactions in the Automated Export System (AES) comply with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). BIS will measure exporter EAR compliance by reviewing, on a quarterly and annual basis, the entire compilation of export transactions under BIS jurisdiction (i.e., BIS licensed, license exception and No License Required Shipments), and determine their EAR compliance percentage following any BIS intervention, as necessary

This metric will measure BIS's success in reaching the diverse members of the exporting community, including small businesses and underserved community members. As anyone exporting dual-use or less sensitive military items out of the United States is subject to the Export Administration's requirements, BIS has a responsibility to try and reach as many of these parties as possible. Effective outreach efforts by BIS will increase the overall level of exports and ensure that a higher percentage of exports are completed in compliance with export control law and regulations.

Changes to regime control lists have been agreed to by the members of the multilateral regimes, who are the U.S. export control partners. If those changes result in tighter controls, they must be implemented to address national security or proliferation concerns, and if they result in liberalizations, they must be implemented to ensure that U.S. industry is not disadvantaged vis-à-vis our allies. Therefore, it is important to refer the draft multilateral changes for interagency review in three months or less from plenary meeting dates in order to meet our multilateral obligations, maximize U.S. competitiveness, and enable economic growth for American industries, workers, and consumers. Effective and efficient adaptation of export controls advances responsible economic growth and trade while protecting American security.

This metric is designed to measure the overall effectiveness of the entire export control outreach seminar program. Given the volume of trade from the United States, informing U.S. and foreign businesses of the requirements of the EAR is a critical component of our export control system. The target is for at least 93% of the seminar attendees to give the seminar an overall rating of at least 4 (out of a 5 level scale).

Export Control Reform (ECR) has moved tens of thousands of items -- mostly parts and components -- from the U.S. Munitions List to the more flexible Commerce Control List. The move has enabled more nuanced distinctions among technologies, destinations, and end users than under the State Department's International Traffic in Arms Regulations. BIS will track shipments of such items made under the Automated Export System.