U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT FINES HONG KONG SHIPPER
The U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of Export Enforcement has imposed a $20,000 civil penalty on Haneflex Sales and Services Ltd., a Hong Kong-based
trading and distribution firm, for violating export rules.
Commerce alleged that in January 1995 Haneflex intentionally sold and transferred U.S.-origin diffusion pumps to Shun Fat Metal and Iron Works in Hong Kong in violation of its Commerce license.
Haneflex also agreed to a five-year denial of export privileges, but Commerce suspended the penalty.