Two U.S. Companies Pay Fines for Illegal Exports to South Asia

The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security announced this week that two U.S. companies have agreed to pay civil fines for illegal exports to India and Pakistan (see GSN, Nov. 3).

The Florida-based Future Metals Inc. has agreed to pay a fine of $180,000 to settle charges of violating U.S. export regulations on 40 occasions with unlicensed exports to India, the bureau said in a press release. BIS had charged that between July 1998 and October 2000, Future Metals had exported aluminum bars to India without obtaining the required export licenses. Export of the bars to India is controlled for nuclear nonproliferation reasons, the bureau said (U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security release I, Nov. 12).

In addition, Connecticut-based Omega Engineering Inc. has agreed to pay a $187,000 fine for illegally exporting laboratory equipment to Pakistan, the bureau said (see GSN, April 30). Both the company and its vice president, Ralph Michael, were also barred from exporting goods to Pakistan for five years (U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security release II, Nov. 12).

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