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U.S. Firm Fined for Illegal Exports
A California engineering firm has agreed to pay $700,000 for violating U.S. export rules by selling equipment to nations of proliferation concern without a license, the San Bernardino (Calif.) Business Press reported yesterday. The U.S. Commerce Department determined that Wilden Pump and Engineering Co. shipped special pumps to Iran, China, Israel, Syria and the United Arab Emirates. The machinery, designed for use in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, could be used to create biological or chemical weapons. The department requires companies to receive an export license before shipping such equipment to those countries. “The size of the penalty assessed to Wilden is due to the significant number of violations, many of them with knowledge that the shipments were destined to an embargoed country,” said the Commerce Department in a statement. The department said Wilden committed 71 Export Administrative Regulation violations between 2000 and 2003. Wilden shipped pumps 26 times without the required license, according to the department, and on 22 of those occasions Wilden shipped the pumps knowing a violation would occur. The department also said Wilden made false statements on export documents 23 times (Jim Steinberg, Business Press, June 8).
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