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| Maryland Company
Settles Charges of Antiboycott Violations |
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| April 14, 2004 |
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| Summary: U.S. Department of Commerce: For
Immediate Release: April 14, 2004 Contact - BIS Public Affairs 202-482-2721
Invitrogen agreed to a $2,000 civil penalty to settle allegations of violations
of US antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Regulations. |
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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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