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Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation fined for shipping potassium fluoride to Taiwan without export license
On December 28, 2001, the Commerce Department imposed a $210,000 civil penalty on Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation of Houston, Texas, to settle charges that it illegally exported sensitive items without Department of Commerce authorization. The agreement settled allegations that, between February 1996 and March 1999, Kaiser made 12 shipments of potassium fluoride to Jamaica […]
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S.R. Traffic Service fined for exporting potassium fluoride to Mexico without valid license
On August 3, 2000, the Commerce Department imposed a $10,000 civil penalty on Texas-based S.R. Traffic Service for alleged exports of U.S.-origin potassium fluoride from the United States to Mexico without the proper export licenses. Potassium fluoride is controlled for export by multilateral agreement with the 30-nation Australia Group of chemical producers because, in addition […]
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ALCOA’s $1 million fine for shipping fluoride chemicals that could be used for chemical weapons
See full Federal Register report Recommended Decision and Order On Friday, February 26, 1999, the Federal Register published the Decision and Order issued by the Under Secretary for Export Administration, Bureau of Export Administration, United States Department of Commerce (BXA) on February 19, 1999 (64 FR 9471). However, the Recommended Decision and Order of the […]
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PPG Industries of Mexico fined for exporting potassium fluoride without valid license
On February 26, 1999, the Commerce Department imposed a $60,000 civil penalty on PPG Industries de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (PPG Mexico), a Mexican chemical company, to settle allegations that the company exported potassium fluoride from the United States to Mexico without the required Commerce Department licenses. The Department also alleged that, on two of […]
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ALCOA Fined $750,000 by Commerce Department For Illegal Chemical Shipments
WASHINGTON — The Commerce Department’s Under Secretary for Export Administration, William A. Reinsch, imposed a civil penalty of $750,000 on Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) for 100 violations of U.S. export regulations involving shipments of potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride. The penalty results from Reinsch’s affirming an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) recommended findings in the […]
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Syntex S.A./Mario Palmeros/Villasana &Company fined for exporting hydrogen fluoride without export license
On September 3, 1998, the Commerce Department imposed a $65,000 civil penalty on Syntex S.A. de C.V., a Mexican chemical company, to settle allegations that it caused, aided, or abetted the export of U.S.-origin hydrogen fluoride from the United States to Mexico without the required Commerce Department licenses. Syntex will pay $32,500 of the penalty; […]
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Chemical & Biological Weapons. Fluorine chemicals. 1995 UN Monitoring and Verification of Iraq’s Compliance.
Note from FAN: Section C, cited below, of the 1991 UN Security Council Resolution 687, “Invites Iraq to reaffirm unconditionally its obligations under the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, and to […]
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A Comparison of the Australia Group List of Chemical Weapon Precursors and the CWC Schedules of Chemicals
Excerpts (see full Bulletin): At first glance, the list of 54 individual chemicals in the table on page 3, the Australia Group List (AGL), looks rather different from the schedules of chemicals set out in the Annex on Chemicals of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), where the different schedules contain both chemical-warfare agents and precursors, […]
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