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Export Compliance Information

It is the policy of National Instruments Corporation and its branches that all export and re-export sales or shipments of its products and technical data will be made in accordance with all applicable global export control laws, including without limitation:

  • United States export laws and regulations; and
  • European Union and national export laws and regulations.

The United States export laws and regulations include, but are not limited to, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”), U.S. State Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”), U.S. Treasury Department’s Foreign Assets Control Regulations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Regulations and the U.S. Energy Department’s Assistance to Foreign Atomic Energy Activities Regulations. The European Laws and Regulations include, but are not limited to, the Council Regulation (EC) No. 428/2009 and the Hungarian Government Decree No. 50/2004 (III. 23.)

National Instruments' standard products are designed for commercial applications and are subject to the jurisdiction of the EAR.

National Instruments will work with our customers to ensure that any technical data controlled under the ITAR provided to National Instruments is properly handled. Customers must notify NI prior to providing any ITAR-controlled technical data in accordance with NI’s ITAR Technology Control Plan. NI’s ITAR Technology Control Plan will be provided to customers upon request.

National Instruments is currently registered with the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and fully understands its obligations to comply with the requirements of the ITAR.

Diversion contrary to U.S. and E.U. law is strictly prohibited.

National Instruments products or technology MAY NOT BE exported or re-exported, either directly or indirectly, to the following:

  • Any country subject to a comprehensive embargo by the United States, currently:
    • Cuba
    • Iran
    • North Korea
    • Sudan
    • Syria
  • An entity that you know or have reason to know is involved in any of the following end uses:
    • Biological Weapons
    • Chemical Weapons
  • An entity (person, address or company/university) that is listed on the Denied Persons List, Unverified List, Entity List, Specially Designated Nationals List, Debarred List and Nonproliferation Sanctions List. The full lists are available are on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security webpage:
    http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/liststocheck.htm

All National Instruments high-speed digitizers that can acquire a signal at a rate greater than 2 giga-samples per second (-5152, -5153 and -5154 product families) MAY NOT BE exported or re-exported, either directly or indirectly, without an export license from the United States government to the following countries:

  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Libya
  • Pakistan
  • Any embargoed country listed in the above section

National Instruments products MAY be prohibited from shipping to an entity involved with any of the following end uses, depending upon the destination country:

  • Military End Use
  • Rocket Systems
  • Nuclear Activities
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

It is the policy of National Instruments to require End Use Information, in order to verify that the intended end use would not constitute a violation of the U.S. export control laws, for any shipment of product, including re-export by customers, to the following countries:

  • Afghanistan
  • Belarus
  • China
  • Hong Kong
  • Iraq
  • Libya
  • Malaysia
  • Malta
  • Pakistan
  • Singapore
  • United Arab Emirates

It is the policy of National Instruments to require End Use Information, in order to verify the intended end use would not constitute a violation of the European Union export control laws, for any shipment of product exported from the European Union to the following countries:

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Burma (Myanmar)
  • China
  • Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
  • Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
  • Eritrea
  • Guinea
  • Iraq
  • Lebanon
  • Liberia
  • Sierra Leone
  • Somalia
  • Zimbabwe

End Use Information, which includes end user name, company name, address and intended use of NI products, may be sent for review via fax to 1 512 683 5357 or to export.screening@ni.com.

NI reserves the right not to ship NI products ordered if, at any time, NI believes that such shipment may violate U.S. or E.U. export control laws.

Although we provide this information to assist you, you remain responsible for exporting or re-exporting NI products in accordance with all applicable global export control laws, including without limitation, U.S. and E.U. laws.

For questions, contact NI’s Global Trade Compliance Department:

Phone: 1(512) 683-6010

HTS Codes, ECCNs and Countries of Origin for NI products: export.data@ni.com.

Difficulties importing NI product into your country: trade.facilitation@ni.com.

All other trade compliance-related questions: trade.compliance@ni.com.

For an overview of United States export controls, please visit the website of the Bureau of Industry and Security:
http://www.bis.doc.gov/licensing/exportingbasics.htm

For European Union export controls, please view Council Regulation (EC) No. 428/2009 at the below link:
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2009/june/tradoc_143390.pdf

For Hungarian export controls, please view Hungarian Government Decree No. 50/2004 (III. 23.) at the below link:
http://mkeh.gov.hu/haditechnika/EU/kettos_felhasznalasu