export license
Shipping approval document
An export license is official government authorization to sell or transfer goods, services, or technology to a foreign country.
Governments require them for items with military applications, sensitive technology, or strategic materials: The company needed an export license before shipping the encryption software overseas.
Licensing regimes aim to control weapons proliferation and protect national security interests.
- embargoOfficial prohibition on trade
- trade warRetaliatory economic hostilities
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- national securitySafeguarding a country's interests
- munitionsMilitary weapons and ammunition
arms dealer · customs clearance · licensing authority · bill of lading · cargo · international trade · international sanctions · shipping manifest · paper trail · foreign policy · import · red tape · approval · certificate · duty · restriction · shipment · bureaucracy
- approvalsapproved, approve, authorizing, certification, endorsing
- permits and licenseslicenses, building permit, work permit, licensure, gun permit
- international tradeglobal trade, customs, tariffs, freight, exports
- permitspermits, building permit, licenses, work permit, construction permit
- trade policytariff, free trade, quotas, protectionism, sanctions
- trade zonesfree trade zone, trading hub, economic zone, free zone, trade hub