BIS Denies Export Privileges to Three Tampa Companies and Individuals in New York, Florida
The Bureau of Industry and Security denied export privileges to the following entities:
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Timely, relevant coverage of court proceedings and agency rulings involving tariffs, classification, valuation, origin and antidumping and countervailing duties. Each day, Trade Law Daily subscribers receive a daily headline email, in-depth PDF edition and access to all relevant documents via our trade law source document library and website.
- Nexiant, LLC (here)
- P&P Computers (here)
- RH International LLC and Mohammad Reza, aka Ray Hajian (here)
All three companies and the individual are located in Tampa, Florida, and were convicted in October 2012 of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and Iranian Transactions Regulations by exporting computer and related equipment from the U.S. through the United Arab Emirates to Iran without a license. The companies were each sentenced to 12 months unsupervised probation and a $400 fine. All are denied export privileges until Oct. 18, 2022.
The Bureau also denied export privileges to Richard Phillips, currently an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Ray Brook, N.Y., until June 21, 2022 (here). Last June, Phillips was convicted of knowingly, intentionally and willfully attempting to export, reexport, sell and supply, directly and indirectly, a spindle of carbon fiber from the U.S. to Iran without a license. He was sentenced to 92 months in prison, plus three years supervised release and a $100 fine.
(Federal Register 3/29/13)