PSV AT AS ELCOTEQ TALLINN

UNCLAS TALLINN 000360 SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OES/LIA RITTER E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ETTC EN SUBJECT: PSV AT AS ELCOTEQ TALLINN REF: USDOC 06210037 ¶1. Econ/Commercial Officer Brian Frere carried out post-shipment verification at AS Elcoteq Tallinn, on 10 November 2009. ¶2. Post met for approximately one hour with Jan Kotka, General Manager of AS Elcoteq Tallinn. An examination of the firm's records confirmed that Elcoteq received reftel shipment of 600 electronic integrated circuits and micro assemblies, digital field programmable gate arrays (A42MX24-2PQ208XC01) on June 23, 2008, which were used to manufacture Message Bus Interfaces (MBIF) and Hardware Alarm Terminals (HWAT) for their customer Nokia Siemens Networks. According to Mr. Kotka all the products in reftel were used in Estonia and all the assembled MBIFs and HWATs were shipped to Nokia Siemens Network in Espoo, Finland. Mr. Kotka provided an invoice showing the shipment of above mentioned products to Nokia Siemens Networks in Finland. Elcoteq AS no longer assembles products for Nokia Siemens Networks. ¶3. Post was able to schedule the visit without significant delay from the company, and experienced no reluctance on the part of Mr. Kotka to answer any questions posed by Econ/Commercial Officer. Kotka provided documentation that supported shipments reported in reftel. Documentation also showed the company received 11 other shipments from Actel Corporation of A42MX24-2PQ208XC01-s in 2008 which were all ordered for the same Nokia Siemens Networks products. ¶4. Recommendation: all indications were that the goods have been used in accordance with the terms of the export license and that AS Elcoteq Tallinn appears to be a reliable recipient of sensitive U.S. technology for this transaction. DECKER DECKER