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

UNCLAS STATE 019686 SIPDIS SIPDIS PRETORIA FOR BAIMBA YILLA SINGAPORE FOR ELIZABETH CROSSEN E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ETTC SF SN KOMC SUBJECT: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE 05-050031210 REF: 2006 BLUE LANTERN GUIDEBOOK ¶1. This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. ¶2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Posts' assistance in conducting a post-shipment end-use check on license number 05-050031210 for the export of defense hardware to Singapore. Posts are requested to complete this Blue Lantern inquiry 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: Unfamiliar foreign intermediate consignee and foreign consignee. ¶4. Action Pretoria and Singapore: Department requests that Posts make inquiries to establish the bona fides of South African-based foreign consignee Poynting Antennas and Singapore-based foreign intermediate consignee Stelop, respectively. Conduct site visits to assess the companies' reliability as recipients of United States Munitions List (USML) articles as well as their operations and on-site security. If site visits are not possible, please inform PM/DTCC case officer. Remind the companies that the unauthorized re-export or retransfer of USML items is strictly prohibited. The following questions provide suggested guidance: (To Stelop and Poynting Antennas) - Please confirm that an order was shipped under license 05-050031210. - How long has your company been in the business of importing and selling defense articles? In what other name(s) has your company done business, if any? - Are you familiar with the restrictions against the unauthorized re-export or retransfer of U.S.-origin defense articles? - What other products are sold by your company? - Who are your regular customers and where are they located? (Singapore: Ministry of Home Affairs) - Please confirm that you received the items listed on license 05-050031210 and that they are being used for the stated purpose. - How long has the Ministry of Home Affairs done business with Stelop? - What were the specific roles of Stelop and Poynting in the transaction described in No. 5, below? End Action Request. ¶5. Details of license application: DTC Case: 05-050031210 QUANTITY/COMMODITY: 2 Rotron Fans P/N 022610, PX3BM 115AC N 763ZH License Value: USD $2,294. SELLER: Ametek Inc. DBA Ametek Rotron 55 Hasbrouck Lane Woodstock, NY 12498 FOREIGN INTERMEDIATE CONSIGNEE: STELOP (ST Electronics) 24 Ang Mo Kio Street 65 Blk D, 5th Floor Singapore 569061 Singapore FOREIGN CONSIGNEE: Poynting Antennas (Pty) Ltd. 33 Thora Crescent Wynberg, 2090 South Africa Tel: (02) 9878 0977 Fax: (02) 9878 3615 Email:ispl@ intspec.com (A.C.N./A.B.N. 092 893 644) FOREIGN END-USER: Ministry of Home Affairs Police Coast Guard Singapore SN PURPOSE: The fans will be part of an air conditioning system for a Radome that will house an antenna system. This system is forwarded to STELOP which manufactures the EO Payload System for the Police Coast Guard in Singapore. ¶6. Submitted in support of the license application were the following documents (PM/DTCC will fax documentation to Posts upon request): - Nontransfer and Use Certificate dated 12/19/05 - End User Statement from Integrated Spectronics dated 09/26/05 - Purchase Order No. 00005709 from Integrated Spectronics Pty Ltd dated 02/15/05 ¶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 S. 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 Posts' assistance in this matter. RICE