Method and limits

A clean result is not a certificate.

What this product claims, what it does not, and how to tell the difference.

If we return no designation, that means this name does not appear on the lists we screened, as of the date we screened them. It is not a certification, and it is not a legal opinion.

So we show the work: which lists were checked, which were not, when each was last refreshed, and the agency record behind every hit. Where a list has no machine-readable feed, we say so rather than implying coverage we don't have.

The one error this product must never make is showing a listed entity as clean. Everything here is built around not making it.

The 14 lists we screen

Published by Treasury, Commerce, DOD, DHS and State. Most arrive through trade.gov's Consolidated Screening List, the government's own combined feed; the rest come straight from the agency's publication. Re-ingested daily and diffed against the previous day.

OFAC SDNU.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets ControlAgency source
BIS Entity ListU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and SecurityAgency source
DOD 1260H (Chinese Military Companies)U.S. Department of DefenseAgency source
UFLPA Entity ListU.S. Department of Homeland Security (FLETF)Agency source
CBP Withhold Release OrdersU.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionAgency source
BIS Denied PersonsU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and SecurityAgency source
BIS Military End UserU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and SecurityAgency source
BIS Unverified ListU.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and SecurityAgency source
State ITAR DebarredU.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade ControlsAgency source
State NonproliferationU.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Security and NonproliferationAgency source
Chinese Military-Industrial Complex (NS-CMIC)U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets ControlAgency source
Sectoral Sanctions Identifications (SSI)U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets ControlAgency source
Non-SDN Palestinian Legislative Council (NS-PLC)U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets ControlAgency source
Non-SDN Menu-Based Sanctions (NS-MBS)U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets ControlAgency source

A dot marks a list we treat as critical: a designation there is what drives a flagged verdict rather than a note.

Where a result can be wrong

Name matching is not identity resolution. Entities are screened by name and alias. A subsidiary trading under a name the agency never recorded will not match, which is why ownership is shown alongside the verdict rather than folded into it.

Screening a company is not screening its supply chain. A supplier can be clean on every list and still sit on top of a chain that is not. That is a separate question, with its own maps and its own vocabulary.

Lists change without notice. A result is true as of its stated date. Designations are added and removed between refreshes, which is what the change feed and the watchlist alerts exist for.