COMMERCE FINES BDP INTERNATIONAL FOR VIOLATING ANTIBOYCOTT RULE

COMMERCE FINES BDP INTERNATIONAL FOR VIOLATING ANTIBOYCOTT RULE    The U.S. Commerce Department’s Office of Antiboycott Compliance has imposed a $4,000 civil penalty on BDP International for violating the country’s antiboycott provisions.
   Commerce said BDP’s Des Plaines, Ill. office was involved in a shipment to Saudi Arabia in 1997, in which the forwarder gave information about another company’s business in Israel by “certifying that the goods were not of Israeli origin, did not contain Israeli materials and were not exported from Israel.”
   Without admitting nor denying the allegations, BDP agreed to pay the fine, the agency said.
   The antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Act and regulations prohibit U.S. companies from complying with certain aspects of unsanctioned foreign boycotts maintained against any country friendly to the United States that is not the subject to a U.S.-sanctioned boycott.