EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FILUR ELECTRONIC

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000326 SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/M.HAMES/L.RITTER USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN USDOC FOR 532/BIS/OEA/TWILLIS/EHOLLAND/ANALYST KYIV FOR FCS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FILUR ELECTRONIC LTD, KIEV, UKRAINE, LICENSE NO. NLR REFTEL: USDOC 0235 ¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. ¶2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Filur Electronic Ltd., Kiev, Ukraine. The company is listed on BIS license application: NLR as the ultimate consignee of thirty (30) integrated circuits, 16 lead, 3X3 and amplifiers, ten (10) GAAS PHEMT MMIC power amplifier 9 Q 11 GHZ, twenty-five (25) I.C. digital attenuator electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, and twenty (20) I.C. DIV8 prescaler electronic integrated circuit: n/unmounted, electronic devices and components. ECCN: 3A001. These items are controlled for national security (NA),missile technology (MT),nuclear non-proliferation (NP) and anti-terrorism reasons (AT). The exporter is Hittite Microwave Corporation, 20 Alpha Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824. ¶3. On January 30, 2009, Export Control Attach Peter Liston and LES Yuriy Prikhodko conducted the requested post-shipment verification with Filur Electronic Ltd, 2A M Krivonosa Street, R 700, Kiev, Ukraine. The export control team met with Sergey Palatny, General Director. ¶4. Filur Electronic Ltd was founded in 1993 as a distributor of electronic components. Filur has 20 employees. FilurQs first international contract was with Philips Corporation. Filur started importing dual-use electronic components in 1995. Filur has imported licensable electronic components from Honeywell Sensor Controls, Siemens (under license from Germany),and Hittite Microwave. Filur has been offered military contact work but has never imported components for them. ¶5. According to Sergey Palatny, the reftel commodities were imported for sale on the local market only. The commodities are consistent with the subject business. There are no indications of impropriety and the consigneeQs answers were not evasive. ¶6. Recommendations: Post recommends Filur Electronic Ltd., Kiev, Ukraine as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. (FCS MOSCOW/JMARKS/PLISTON) BEYRLE