BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK

UNCLAS STATE 161506

SIPDIS

SIPDIS
AIT TAIPEI FOR MATTHEW O'CONNOR AND MI-YONG KIM

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ETTC KOMC AIT
SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
ON LICENSE 05-050029742

REF: A. 2006 BLUE LANTERN GUIDEBOOK

B. STATE 11025

C. AIT TAIPEI 466


1. This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4.


2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls
Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests AIT Taipei's assistance in
conducting a post-shipment check on license 05-050029742 for
the export of traveling wave tubes and acceptance test data
to Taiwan. AIT Taipei is requested to complete this Blue
Lantern within 45 days. Lack of response to a Blue Lantern
inquiry will affect pending and future licenses involving
parties to this license.


3. Reason for request: Foreign intermediate consignee Yuan
Fan Inc., was associated with a previous unfavorable Blue
Lantern.


4. Action AIT-Taipei: Establish the bona fides of Yuan Fan
as a reliable recipient of United States Munitions List
(USML) articles. Also, confirm with Taiwan Air Force
Logistics Command that they have received the listed USML
articles, and they are being used for the purpose stated on
the license.

End action request.


5. Details of license application:

DTC Case: 05-050029742

QUANTITY/COMMODITY:

5 L5817-50 Traveling Wave Tubes
5 Copies - Acceptance Test Data for L-5817-50 Traveling Wave
Tubes

License Value: USD $126,590.

SELLER:

L-3 Communications Corporation
Electron Devices Division
960 Industrial Road
San Carlos, CA 94070
Tel: (805) 582-0155

FOREIGN INTERMEDIATE CONSIGNEE:

Yuan Fan Inc.
No 46-80 Cuolin Tsuen Dayuan Shiang
Taoyuan
Taiwan

FOREIGN CONSIGNEE:

Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation
111-17, Lane 68 Fu-Hsing N. Road
Taichung 407
Taiwan

Link Wave Aerospace Technologies, Inc.
1F No. 3-1, Industry E.RD.IX, Science-Based Industrial Park
Hsinchu,Taiwan, R.O.C. 300
Tel: 886-3-6661136
Fax: 886-3-6661168

FOREIGN END-USER:

Taiwan Air Force Logistics Command
No 1000, Ren-Ai Village
Rende Township Tainan County 717
Taiwan

PURPOSE:

Replacement spares for the transmitter of the APG-66 radar
system on the F-16 aircraft for the Taiwan Air Force.


6. Submitted in support of the license application were the
following documents (PM/DTCC will fax documentation to AIT
Taipei upon request):

- Link Wave Aerospace Technologies, Inc. Purchase Order
LWF-096004 dated 14 DEC 06
- End Use/End User Statement dated 12 DEC 06
- L5817-50 Product Specification Sheet


7. Please slug reply for PM/DTCC - BLUE LANTERN COORDINATOR
and include the words "Blue Lantern" and the case number in
the subject line. POC is Rachael-Therese Joubert-Lin, Phone:
202-663-2950; Email: JoubertLinRS@state.gov; SIPRNET:
JoubertLinRS@state.sgov.gov. The Blue Lantern Guidebook
(ref) is available as a PDF file in the Bunche Library's
E-Book Collection on the DOS Intranet:
http://buncheelectroniclibrary.state.gov/eboo ks/
BlueLanternGuidebook2006%20 final .pdf


8. Department is grateful for AIT Taipei's assistance in
this matter.
RICE