# Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS)

> The Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, administers U.S. export
> controls under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). BIS maintains the Commerce
> Control List (CCL), owns four of the restricted-party lists consolidated into the
> Consolidated Screening List (Denied Persons List, Entity List, Military End User List,
> Unverified List), and runs the SNAP-R licensing and STELA application-tracking systems.

Provenance: GENERATED by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline on 2026-09-05 from this
repository's apis.yml and artifacts. BIS does not publish an llms.txt (probed 2026-09-05:
https://www.bis.gov/llms.txt 404, https://developer.trade.gov/llms.txt 404,
https://data.trade.gov/llms.txt 404).

Operator note: the only callable API in this profile — the Consolidated Screening List API —
is OPERATED by the International Trade Administration (ITA) on data.trade.gov. BIS is a
contributing agency, not the API host. SNAP-R and STELA are BIS-operated but are
human-facing web applications with no published machine interface.

## APIs

- [Consolidated Screening List (CSL) API](https://developer.trade.gov/api-details#api=consolidated-screening-list&operation=search): Search the consolidated export screening lists of the Departments of Commerce, State and Treasury. Base URL https://data.trade.gov/consolidated_screening_list/v1. Requires an ITA `subscription-key` (header or query). Two operations: GET /search, GET /sources.
- [SNAP-R Export License Application System](https://www.bis.gov/licensing/how-to-apply-snap-r): BIS export licence, classification and authorisation applications. Web application only — no public API.
- [STELA Export License Tracking](https://www.bis.gov/licensing/stela): status tracking for export licence applications submitted to BIS. Web application only — no public API.

## Machine-readable artifacts in this profile

- [OpenAPI — Consolidated Screening List](openapi/bureau-of-industry-and-security-search-api-openapi.yml)
- [OpenAPI — verbatim ITA APIM export](openapi/_original/bureau-of-industry-and-security-csl-apim-export.yaml)
- [Authentication profile](authentication/bureau-of-industry-and-security-authentication.yml)
- [API conventions](conventions/bureau-of-industry-and-security-conventions.yml)
- [Error catalog](errors/bureau-of-industry-and-security-problem-types.yml)
- [Lifecycle, SLA and deprecation](lifecycle/bureau-of-industry-and-security-lifecycle.yml)
- [Data model](data-model/bureau-of-industry-and-security-data-model.yml)
- [Rate limits](rate-limits/bureau-of-industry-and-security-rate-limits.yml)
- [Plans and pricing](plans/bureau-of-industry-and-security-plans-pricing.yml)
- [Conformance](conformance/bureau-of-industry-and-security-conformance.yml)
- [Domain security probe](security/bureau-of-industry-and-security-domain-security.yml)
- [Well-known probe (all paths absent)](well-known/bureau-of-industry-and-security-well-known.yml)
- [Candidate MCP tools (no server published)](mcp/bureau-of-industry-and-security-mcp.yml)
- [Agent Skills](skills/_index.yml)

## Bulk data (no key required)

- [Consolidated Screening List — JSON](https://data.trade.gov/downloadable_consolidated_screening_list/v1/consolidated.json)
- [Consolidated Screening List — CSV](https://data.trade.gov/downloadable_consolidated_screening_list/v1/consolidated.csv)
- [Consolidated Screening List — TSV](https://data.trade.gov/downloadable_consolidated_screening_list/v1/consolidated.tsv)

Refreshed daily at 05:00 ET. Verified anonymously readable 2026-09-05 (HTTP 206, 33,683,407 bytes).

## Getting access

- [Sign up for an ITA subscription key](https://developer.trade.gov/signup) — free, self-serve, no approval step.
- [API reference and interactive console](https://developer.trade.gov/api-details#api=consolidated-screening-list&operation=search)
- [API changelog](https://developer.trade.gov/api-changelog)
- [Service Level Agreement](https://developer.trade.gov/service-level-agreement) — 99.5% uptime target.
- Support: DataServices@trade.gov (API platform) · https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/contact-us (BIS)

## Optional

- [Export Administration Regulations (EAR)](https://www.bis.gov/regulations/ear)
- [Classify your item / Commerce Control List](https://www.bis.gov/licensing/classify-your-item)
- [Consolidated Screening List overview](https://www.trade.gov/consolidated-screening-list)
- [BIS news and updates](https://www.bis.gov/news-updates)