TAIWAN REPORTS IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM DID NOT

S E C R E T AIT TAIPEI 000076


STATE FOR ISN/MTR JAMES MAYES

E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/20/2034
TAGS: PARM PREL TW

SUBJECT: TAIWAN REPORTS IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM DID NOT
RECEIVE CONTROLLED EQUIPMENT FROM TAIWAN (S)

REF: A. 2008 SECSTATE 109924

B. 2008 SECSTATE 109927

C. 2008 SECSTATE 109928

Classified By: AIT Economic Section Deputy Chief Mike Cavanaugh for rea
son 1.4(C)


1. (S) In a letter dated December 31, Board of Foreign Trade
(BOFT) Department of Import and Export Licensing and
Administration officer Chang Chih-chung replied to reftel
requests to investigate, and implement sanctions on, four
Taiwan companies for likely violations of export control
regulations by exporting controlled items to Iran. The text
of the response follows:


2. (S) Begin text of BOFT letter: Please find BOFT,s
investigation result of the case that Taiwan,s Gtech testing
Machines Inc., Vision Wide Tech Co. Ltd., Proking Machinery
Co. Ltd., and Joemars Machinery and Electric Industrial Co.
Ltd. likely violated export control regulations by exporting
controlled commodities to Iran.

Explanations:

--This letter was made to respond to AIT,s letters dated
October 15, 2008, with numbers 109924, 109927, 109928, etc.

--To prevent these subject four companies from exporting
commodities to Iran for WMD purpose, BOFT has strengthened
control measures to include (1) ask the Directorate General
of Customs to enlist these companies as the high-risk
manufacturers in Custom,s Risk Management System; (2)
request these companies in letter that in the future they
need to apply for (BOFT Strategic High-Tech Commodities) SHTC
export permits before exporting goods when the trading
partners are from Turkey or Iran; (3) to include these
companies in BOFT,s regular-inspection list.

--BOFT,s investigations found that according to the
companies, export records, Gotech did not apply for
exporting goods to Iran,s Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group
(SHIG) or Sabalan Company from March to September 2008;
Vision Wide did not export machine tools to Iran, but did
export one to Turkey from June to September, 2008; Pro-king
had no machine-tool export record to Iran and Turkey from
June to September 2008; and Joemars did not export commodity
to from August to September 2008. In addition, based on the
verification report numbered 9712034 from the Verification
Team of the BOFT,s Verification and Inspection Task Force,
the machine tool which Vision Wide exported to Turkey was not
in SHTC controlled list, and it was indicated in the manifest
that the buyers were American Households and Nasr Ghaleb, who
were not in international black lists, nor in Taiwan,s Watch
List.

--The overall investigation provided no evidence showing that
these companies exported SHTCs illegally. End text of BOFT
letter.
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