Step 1, check the Wassenaar Arrangement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangementhttp://www.wassenaar.orgFor electronics, only high end optical or RF gear is likely to be on the list. Its not unique to the US, all international trade through the signatories has to follow it.
Step 2, if over the exporting limit pay a courier to deal with all the export paper work. Offer it as the only postage options to international people (or the GSP which does the same thing).
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I'll stand by my comments.
Start with your first link which tells you nothing about whether what you are doing is OK, only tells what Wassenaar is. So after spending a few minutes there chalk the wasted time up to experience and go to the second link, which I haven't fully digested, but in just a preliminary quick scan add to the optical or RF gear possibilities the following. Inspection equipment and control equipment for composite materials. High temperature electronics. Low temperature electronics (these two are ok is specifically designed for automotive use. That doesn't let oilfield equipment, high altitude gear, space gear, arctic gear, cryogenic gear or other similar gear off the hook.) High speed, high resolution A/D converters. High efficiency solar cells. That is in the first 65 pages of the 224 page document. And doesn't touch the issue of sanctions or other locally generated controls. And doesn't identify other gray areas like high power thyristors or fast power switches which are also in the first 65 pages. And doesn't address the fact that you have to through this again every time the Wassenaar group revises the list, which appears to be something like annually.
So, by my standards, what you are recommending is a quick read and take your chances. In your quick read you only found optics and RF gear. Or maybe you decided that only the RF guys have use for high speed, high resolution A/D converters.
I assume that step 2 works, but don't know if it really changes the situation. If the fees are so large that no one wants to buy, what is the difference from a vendor saying they don't want to bother. I have run into this several times personally, and see comments on this forum all the time indicating that shipping costs make importing impractical or not worth it.