BIS Denies Export Privileges for Attempt to Send Carbon Fiber Product to China

The Bureau of Industry and Security denied export privileges for Ming Suan Zhang through 2023, following Zhang’s conviction of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. A New York U.S. District Court sentenced Zhang to a 57-month prison term in 2013 for “knowingly, intentionally and willfully” trying to export one or more spools of Toray type M60JB-3000-50B carbon fiber to China from the U.S. Those products are controlled by the Commerce Department under the Export Administration Regulations. Zhang is serving time at the Moshannon Valley correction institution in Philipsburg, Pa.