Trade Sanctions and Export Control Under the Strategic Trade Act 2010
The Strategic Trade Act 2010 answers a different question from anti-money laundering sanctions screening. It is not asking who you may transact with; it is asking what may cross a border, and in what form. Strategic items, including goods with both civilian and military application, arms, and technology with export control significance, need a permit before they are exported, transited through Malaysia, or brokered, and the obligations fall on exporters, brokers and anyone arranging the movement of a controlled item, not only on manufacturers.
This one-day programme is built for export compliance, trade, logistics, and manufacturing or technology company staff who need to recognise when the Strategic Trade Act applies to what they ship, broker or transit, and what MITI's permit and licensing process expects of them. It deliberately sits beside, rather than inside, the existing Sanctions Screening and Targeted Financial Sanctions (TFS) Compliance course: that course covers who you may transact with under AML/CFT designated-persons sanctions, a financial crime regime; this course covers what goods may lawfully cross a border, a trade regime with its own permit system. Organisations handling strategic items typically need both, taught separately because the obligations, the regulator and the documentation are different.
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Programme Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome and Programme Overview
Introduction to the session, objectives, and housekeeping.
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
What the Strategic Trade Act Controls
Strategic items and the dual-use concept, goods and technology with both civilian and military application, arms and related items, and how to check whether a product, component or piece of technology your organisation exports, transits or brokers actually falls within scope.
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
The Permit and Licensing System
MITI's role administering the Strategic Trade Act, the categories of permit and authorisation an exporter, broker or transit party may need, and the practical process of applying for and maintaining the right authorisation before a shipment moves.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
End-User and End-Use Screening
Why the Act cares about who receives a controlled item and what they intend to do with it, building an end-user and end-use screening step into an order process, and the red flags that should stop a shipment pending further checks.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:20 PM
Record-Keeping and an Internal Compliance Programme
What records a permit holder and an exporter of controlled items are expected to keep, and the shape of an internal compliance programme, including designated responsibility, screening procedures and staff training, that a well-run exporter maintains.
2:20 PM - 3:15 PM
Brokering, Transit and Transhipment
How the Act reaches activity beyond a straightforward export, including brokering a transaction between two foreign parties and the transit or transhipment of controlled goods through Malaysia, and why logistics and freight-forwarding staff need to recognise these cases too.
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Penalties and Distinguishing This From Financial Sanctions
The consequences of unauthorised export, transit or brokering of a controlled item, and a clear working distinction between this trade-control regime and AML/CFT targeted financial sanctions screening, so staff know which process to run and when both apply to the same transaction.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Wrap-Up and Q&A
Key takeaways, next steps, and close.
Key Outcomes
- Identify whether a product, component or technology falls within the Strategic Trade Act's scope
- Explain MITI's permit and licensing process for strategic items
- Build an end-user and end-use screening step into an order or shipment process
- Maintain the records an internal compliance programme is expected to produce
- Recognise when brokering or transit activity brings a transaction within the Act
- Distinguish export control obligations from AML/CFT targeted financial sanctions screening
Training Mode Physical / Online / Hybrid / e-learning
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Level Foundation to intermediate. For export compliance, trade, logistics, and manufacturing or technology company staff trading in or through Malaysia.
Duration 1 Day (8 Hours) | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue In-house at the client's premises, or delivered via the client's preferred platform (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or equivalent)
Assessment A scope-screening exercise against sample shipments, plus a written knowledge check
Certificate Certificate of Completion issued to all participants upon full attendance