Three violations of the antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce has announced a $44,750 civil penalty on a Texas-based satellite communications and networking systems company. This penalty resolves three violations of the antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
According to the BIS release (June 3, 2024), the company voluntarily disclosed the violations to BIS, cooperated with the investigation by BIS’s Office of Antiboycott Compliance (OAC), and took corrective actions, which resulted in a significant reduction in penalty.
The violations involved the company providing information about its business relationships with boycotted countries or blacklisted persons and failing to report the receipt of a request to engage in a restrictive trade practice or foreign boycott against a country friendly to the United States. Specifically, the company participated in a trade show in Kuwait in 2019, where the company certified that the goods they were shipping were not of Israeli origin and not manufactured by a company on the “Israeli Boycott Blacklist.” Furnishing such information is prohibited by the EAR. In addition, the company failed to report to BIS the receipt of the request to furnish this information, as required by the EAR.
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