Denied Party Screening Tool for Exporters, Freight Forwarders, and Customs Brokers

Use sanctionlistcheck.com to screen the parties in your international shipments against denied party lists. Our tool allows you to quickly screen your counterparties against essential global sanctions and denied party lists, supporting your due diligence efforts. Upload your list for fast checks.

Understanding Denied Party Screening for Export Compliance

For exporters, freight forwarders, and customs brokers, denied party screening is a critical step in preventing illegal exports and avoiding severe penalties. Before any transaction or shipment, it is essential to verify that your consignees, shippers, and other transaction parties are not listed on government restricted or denied party lists. Failing to screen can lead to significant fines, loss of export privileges, and reputational damage. Our tool streamlines this vital due diligence process, assisting you in addressing your obligations efficiently.

Denied Party List Coverage and Workflow

sanctionlistcheck.com screens your uploaded lists against eight official sanctions and denied party lists: the US Consolidated Screening List (US CSL), which includes the BIS Entity List and Denied Persons List, along with OFAC SDN, the EU Consolidated Sanctions List, France's registre national des gels (the national designations published by the Direction générale du Trésor), the UK Sanctions List, Poland's lista sankcyjna MSWiA, the Swiss SECO consolidated list, and the UN Security Council Consolidated List. All eight lists are checked at every tier. Simply upload your customer or supplier name list in CSV or XLSX format. Our system automatically detects the name column, and we provide a confirmation screen before screening begins.

Our fully deterministic matching engine uses Jaro-Winkler and token-set fuzzy matching, not subjective AI judgment. Stored data is placed in Cloudflare's Eastern Europe region (EEUR location hint, a placement preference), and name matching normally runs on a matching server in Helsinki, Finland, hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH; if that server is not available or returns an error, or if we switch it off, the matching runs in Cloudflare's network instead, which can be outside the EU. Every request passes through Cloudflare's global edge network, which can also be outside the EU. Uploaded files and generated reports are deleted no later than 24 hours after upload. Your data is never used to train any AI model.

Audit-Ready Reports for Enhanced Due Diligence

Each paid batch job generates a detailed PDF, CSV, and JSON report, essential for your compliance records and audit trails. These reports provide clear results for every line, showing the input name, match status, the specific matched list (if any), and a match score as a detail field. Crucially, every report includes a timestamped 'no match found on [list] as of [timestamp]' line for all eight lists, even if zero matches are found. This documentation records which lists were checked and when, which exporters, freight forwarders, and customs brokers can keep as part of their due-diligence records.

Pricing

Access rapid denied party screening with our straightforward, one-time payment tiers. No subscriptions, just transparent pricing with VAT included.