Decision Tree: International Travel or Research Activities
Do your overseas research activities or travel plan raise an issue under U.S. export controls or sanctions or embargo programs?
You should consult this Decision Tree before you embark on a trip outside the United States, especially if you plan to:
- Travel to Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, North Korea, or Burma; OR
- Travel with a computerized tool of trade such as a laptop, whether personal or university-owned; OR
These items are export-controlled to protect their technology and operating software (which is often encrypted). Traveling with your laptop usually does not raise an export controls issue if you are not taking it to Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, North Korea, or Burma.
- Take with you in your baggage or pocket, or otherwise transfer outside the United States in conjunction with your trip, any other physical/tangible items such as chemicals, biological or agricultural materials, prototypes, research samples, or items of equipment.
Department administrators are reminded that under federal law, anyone offering hazardous materials (whether biological, chemical, or radioactive) for transportation
must comply with the appropriate regulations
and be certified by Cornell's Environmental Health and Safety office (607-255-8200). You are strongly encouraged to arrange transport through one of the campus hazmat shipping sites (Go to
www.ehs.cornell.edu and click on Chemical & Laboratory Safety -> Hazardous Materials Shipping -> Cornell Specifics -> Shipping Stations), to avoid regulatory violations.
In addition to export controls, the Department of Agriculture controls the export and import of some types of soils, seeds, animal, and plant products. Compliance with these regulations will also need to be considered by ORIA.
To consult this Decision Tree, please click here.
