Florida Company Settles Charges Relating to Unlicensed Exports to India
The Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) today released the Proposed Charging Letter, Settlement Agreement and Order relating to an enforcement proceeding brought against Quantchrome Instruments, a Boynton Beach, Florida designer and manufacturer of laboratory instruments for characterizing properties of porous materials and powders. Under the settlement agreemetn Quantchrome Instruments agreed to pay a civil penalty of $6,000 to settle charges resulting from unlicensed exports of an Automated Surface Area and Pore Size Analyzer and related scientific instruments to India's Department of Atomic Energy Bhaba Atomic Research Center, an organizationincluded on BIS's Entity List. The documents related to this case can be viewed at the following link:
efoia.bis.doc.gov/ExportControlViolations/E905.pdf.
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