Trade Party Screening

Use this to determine if the Trade Partner is a denied party. The screening function in Tradeflow allows you to screen any Trade Partner against the Denied Party List to identify possible matches.

See Government Denied Party Screening Lists for a table of the lists the TRC uses.

To screen a trade partner:

1 Click Regulatory Controls from the left navigation panel. The menu will expand.

2 Click Trade Party Screening.

Figure 1: Trade Party Screening Page

3 Fill out the fields and click Screen to screen the Trade Partner. See the field definitions below for more information.

Figure 2: Trade Party Screening Results Page

4 Click next to each result to view the summary details.

Click to view the details in PDF format.

There are a number of acronyms in the results you may or may not be familiar with. Here are some of the common acronyms or abbreviations that you might see in the Department field:

BISUL= BIS (Bureau of Industry and Security) Unverified List

CA = Canada

CITA = Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements

DOC = Department of Commerce

DOL = Department of Labor

DOS = Department of State

ENT = BIS (Bureau of Industry and Security) Entity List

EU = European Union

FBI = Federal Bureau of Investigations

JP = Japan

LIC = License

OCC = Office of the Chief Counsel (US Department of Commerce)

OFAC = Office of Foreign Asset Controls (US)

PSEPC = Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada

TREAS = Department of Treasury (US)

UN = United Nations

USCS = US Customs and Border Protection

See Government Denied Party Screening Lists for more information about these Departments.

A list of the fields that appear in the Screen Trade Partner page:

Field	Description
Phonetic Match	Allows you to widen your search by including results that sound similar. Select from: Yes - retrieves results sounding similar to the field values provided for screening. For example: if the field value is Almori, words such as, Al-Amiri, Almari and Almori are retrieved. No - retrieves results that match the field values exactly. For example: if the field value is Almori, then just the word Almori is retrieved
Match Type	Allows you to create a filter based on the most unique words of a government listing. Up to 4 words from a government restricted list are set per party listing. These keyword choices are an alternative to the sensitivity threshold settings (see Threshold definition below). The values in the drop-down list are: Any Word - retrieves results where one or more words chosen for screening are included in the Denied Party Listing. Any Keyword - retrieves results where one or more words chosen for screening are included in the keywords from the Denied Party Listing. All Keywords - retrieves results where the words chosen for screening match all keywords from the Denied Party Listing. Key Word - retrieves results where one of the words chosen for screening is exactly equal to the main (first) keyword from the Denied Party Listing.
Match on all Lists?	Option to match on all provided list of countries. Yes - Match against all available Denied Party Lists. Yes is selected by default and all available countries are considered for screening. No - The country check boxes are enabled and you can select one or more countries (United Nations, United States, European Union, Canada, or Japan) for screening.
Threshold	To minimize the false positives, Tradeflow offers the ability to set a sensitivity threshold for screening: Low - displays results that match at least one word (5 points or more) Medium - displays results that match at least two words (30 points or more) High - only displays results that match 2 adjacent words or any 3 words matched (59 points or more) "Points" are assigned based on the likelihood of a hit. A single word match on a name for example is worth 20 points; a multi-word adjacent match is 30 additional points and an exact match gives you an additional 100. The default settings are Medium for automated screenings and Low for manual screenings. Default settings can be configured for the customer, and restricted for individual users. When using “Phonetic” screening, which affects single-word matches, the sensitivity threshold must be set to Low. See Sensitivity Threshold Example below.
Email Address	Enter your email address if you want the results to be emailed to you.

Sensitivity Threshold Example

If Osama Bin Laden is entered (with or without an address):

Osama (1 word) = 20
Bin (1 word) = 20
Laden (1 word) = 20
Osama Bin (2 word) = 30
Bin Laden (2 word) = 30
Osama Bin Laden (exact match) = 100

In this example, the screening would match 220 points. Adjacent words count even if they are on the ignore word list (as do an exact match).

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