What screening covers
The restricted-party and destination-control sources behind the trade axis — and what sits outside them.
The trade half of your grade rests on two kinds of published list, downloaded and matched in this system rather than sent to a screening vendor — so the name of the company being checked never leaves the system to get an answer.
- Restricted parties
- The US Consolidated Screening List (BIS Entity List, Denied Persons, OFAC SDN, State Department) and the EU's consolidated financial sanctions list. A copy older than 24 hours is refetched before the next screening run; if a refresh fails, the engine screens against the cached copy rather than against nothing, and says so on the record.
- Destination control
- Where the goods may go is a separate question from who the counterparty is, decided by a dated snapshot rather than a live feed — it carries its own review window so it can't answer confidently long after it stopped being true.
A screener that returns no match is making a claim about its own scope whether it admits it or not. Notably absent here: transaction bans that aren't designations (some EU prohibitions sit outside the sanctions file entirely), Chinese export-control measures, vessel-level designations, a measure's effective date if it was adopted with deferred effect, and politically-exposed-persons or adverse-media data. None of these are modelled — the full list, and the exact version and hash of every file actually read, is on the trust centre's screening sources page.
None of this is a licence determination. Classifying an item and deciding whether a licence is required to ship it stays the exporter's responsibility, exercised by a person — see what Apidentity is for where that line is drawn more generally.