We Conduct International Trade With Integrity
Our Commitment
We honor international trade laws by complying with export controls and sanctions. Noncompliance risks fines, lost business, and reputational harm—
when unsure, stop and get guidance.
How We Win With Integrity
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Follow our policies and applicable laws.
Understand how economic sanctions, export controls, and other applicable laws may apply to your work. Requirements may differ from project to project and country to country.
Do not conduct business internationally without knowing the regulations.
Before shipping across borders, engaging in business with new partners, or sharing sensitive technical information with outside parties, consider whether trade controls may apply. Reach out to your Export Control Officer or Legal Staff for guidance.
Verify all participants in transactions.
Conduct appropriate due diligence to confirm companies and individuals that we might do business with are not on applicable U.S. or other lists of restricted parties.
Review export classifications.
Government authorization may be required before we can share certain sensitive hardware, software, technology, or services internationally or even with certain parties within a single country.
Document transactions completely and accurately.
Comply with all limits on who can have access to controlled information.
Drive Your Understanding
Exports can include:
- Physical shipments of goods to other countries.
- Transfers of software, data, and technological know-how.
Exports can even occur through email, other electronic means, training, or sharing technical documents or math data. Some countries consider sharing technical information with a foreign national to be an export, even if no one leaves their home country.
Which Way?
I work at a non-U.S. GM location. Do U.S. export control and economic sanctions laws apply to my work?
Yes. GM is a U.S.-based company and must adhere to the U.S. export and sanctions laws that apply to our business worldwide.