BIS Imposes $82,500 Penalty on New Jersey Company for Failing to Provide End-Use Certificates in Connection with Chemical Exports
The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has imposed an $82,500 penalty on Ameribrom, Inc., the New Jersey-based subsidiary of Israel's Dead Sea Bromine Group, to settle charges of illegal exports of chemicals to Israel. Specifically, BIS alleged that Ameribrom exported chloropicrin-based pesticide and soil fungicide, an item classified under Export Control Classification Number 1C355.b, to Israel on 11 occasions without obtaining and submitting to BIS the end-use certificate required by Section 745.2 of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). That provision requires that an end-use certificate from the government of the recipient of the applicable items be submitted to BIS for exports of Chemical Weapons Convention Schedule 3 chemicals to countries not party to the Chemical Weapons Convention, such as Israel.
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