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Sanctions and Trade Compliance

Learn Sanctions and Trade Compliance, including sanctions rules, export controls, customs duties, supply chain risk, screening, escalation, records, and compliance assurance.

Last Update July 21, 2026
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  • Level: Intermediate
  • Duration: 2.5 Hours
  • Lectures: 5 Lessons
  • Access: 1 Year
  • Language: English
Sanctions and Trade Compliance
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Course overview

Sanctions and trade compliance affect how organizations assess restricted parties, controlled goods, export risks, payments, and supply chains. Weak controls can lead to unlawful dealings, customs issues, financial red flags, forced labour concerns, and poor decision records.

The Sanctions and Trade Compliance course covers sanctions as economic pressure tools, Canada’s sanctions rulebook, SEMA, UN sanctions, export controls, customs duties, ownership and control risks, sanctions evasion, FINTRAC red flags, and compliance governance.

Learners will understand how screening, escalation, records, training, testing, ethical boundaries, and senior accountability support lawful trade decisions. Certification is provided upon successful completion of the course.

Key topics included

  • Sanctions as economic pressure tools and ethical boundaries in restricted trade

  • SEMA, UN sanctions, Magnitsky-style sanctions, permits, exceptions, and interpretation

  • Export controls, end use, end user, diversion risk, and customs duties

  • Classification, origin, valuation, and records that prove lawful trade

  • Ownership, control, intermediaries, FINTRAC red flags, and forced labour evidence

  • Governance, screening, escalation, decision records, assurance, and enforcement risks

Entry requirements

  • There are no formal academic prerequisites for this course. Learners should have basic English reading and comprehension skills and a willingness to understand sanctions duties, restricted trade risks, screening expectations, and trade compliance records. A careful, ethical, and risk-aware attitude toward cross-border transactions and counterparties will support successful learning.

Who is this course for

This course is suitable for compliance officers, trade compliance staff, procurement teams, logistics personnel, finance staff, customs teams, risk professionals, legal support roles, managers, supervisors, and employees involved in exports, supplier checks, payments, restricted trade decisions, screening, escalation, or maintaining records that support lawful trade activity.

Certification

Certificate

Curriculum

20 Topics Covered 2.5 Hours
  • How Sanctions Shape Lawful Trade Decisions
  • Module 1 Quiz
  • Canada’s Sanctions Rulebook in Practice
  • Module 2 Quiz
  • Controlled Trade, Customs, and Border Risk
  • Module 3 Quiz
  • Hidden Risk in Parties, Payments, and Supply Chains
  • Module 4 Quiz
  • Building a Defensible Compliance Programme
  • Module 5 Quiz
  • Sanctions and Trade Compliance Final Exam

Frequently Asked Questions

Anyone interested in sanctions, trade compliance, export controls, customs risk, or lawful trade decision-making can enroll. The course is suitable for employees, supervisors, managers, compliance teams, procurement staff, logistics personnel, finance teams, and professionals involved in restricted trade reviews.
You will learn about sanctions rules, SEMA, UN sanctions, export controls, end use and end user risks, customs duties, ownership and control concerns, sanctions evasion, FINTRAC red flags, forced labour evidence, screening, escalation, records, and compliance assurance.
This training is important because organizations must identify restricted dealings, controlled trade risks, high-risk counterparties, and supply chain concerns before transactions proceed. Strong awareness supports better screening, escalation, recordkeeping, ethical decisions, and accountability in trade-related operations.
Yes. The course supports stronger awareness of sanctions screening, export control risk, customs obligations, ownership and control issues, intermediary risks, forced labour evidence, decision records, senior accountability, and compliance assurance within trade-related business activities.
Yes. Certification is provided upon successful completion of the course and any required assessments. The certificate demonstrates your understanding of the key principles and practical applications covered in the training.