State Dept. Imposes Two-Year Sanctions on List of Foreign Entities
The State Department Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation said it will impose sanctions on several foreign entities that it said were involved in the transfer to or acquisition of goods, services, or technology controlled under multilateral control lists from Iran since Jan. 1, 1999; from Syria since Jan. 1, 2005; or the transfer to or acquisition from North Korea since Jan. 1, 2006. All of the technology had the potential to make a material contribution to the development of weapons of mass destruction or cruise or ballistic missile systems, it said.
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The sanctions involve the following and their successors and subsidiaries: TM Services Limited (TMS) (Belarus); Scientific and Industrial Republic Unitary Enterprise (Belarus) [also known as: DB Radar]; BST Technology and Trade Company (China); China Precision Machinery Import and Export Corporation (CPMIEC) (China); Dalian Sunny Industries (China) [also known as: LIMMT]; Karl Lee (China) [also known as: Li Fangwei]; Poly Technologies Incorporated (China); Iran Electronics Industries (IEI) (Iran); Marine Industries Organization (MIO) (Iran); Milad Jafari (Iran); Al-Zarga Engineering Complex (ZEC) (Sudan); SMT Engineering (Sudan); Army Supply Bureau (ASB) (Syria); Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) (Iran); Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group (SBIG) (Iran); Shahid Sattari Ground Equipment Industries (Iran); and Venezuelan Military Industry Company (CAVIM) (Venezuela).
The two-year sanctions include: No department or agency of the U.S. government may procure goods or services from the entities; The government can't provide any assistance to them; No government sales to them of any item on the U.S. Munitions List are permitted, and all sales to these persons of any defense articles; No new individual licenses shall be granted for the transfer to them for items controlled under the Export Administration Act or the Export Administration Regulations, and any existing such licenses are suspended. Further information: Pam Durham, 202-647-4930.