The U.S. Department of Commerce
today announced that Invitrogen Corporation of Rockville, Maryland, agreed to a
$2,000 civil penalty to settle allegations that its subsidiary, Invitrogen
Limited of Scotland (Invitrogen), violated the antiboycott provisions of the
Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
The Commerce
Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) charged that Invitrogen
furnished information about its business relationship with Israel when it
certified to the end-user that the United States-origin goods the company sold
to Syria were “not of Israeli origin and did not contain any Israeli
materials.”
The antiboycott provisions of the
EAR prohibit U.S. persons from complying with certain requirements of
unsanctioned foreign boycotts, including providing information about business
relationships with Israel and refusing to do business with persons on boycott
lists. In addition, the EAR requires that persons report their receipt of
certain boycott requests to the Department of Commerce. Under the antiboycott
provisions of the EAR, a controlled-in-fact foreign subsidiary of a domestic
U.S. concern is considered a U.S. person.
Assistant
Secretary for Export Enforcement Julie L. Myers commended Compliance Officer
Joyce Shepard of BIS’s Office of Antiboycott Compliance for her work on
this case. The BIS Public Affairs office can be reached at 202-482-2721. |
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