Illegal Shippers Export Declarations
James M. Atkinson
Declarations (or SED).
By international treaty, and by federal law block # 27 must have the End
user License number that is assigned by the U.S. State Department.
Further as you can clearly see this SED contains no such license number,
and indeed in block #28, the ECCN is utterly fictional and the equipment
being sold is not actually 5A991, (it legally should be should be
5A001.e, but that would bring it to the attention of Customs, but 5A991
likely woudl not)
This is not a one-of-a-mistake either, there are many, many more... many
more.
So as you can clearly see in this example, they are illegally smuggling
arms as defined by 22 CFR 121.1 by the Munitions Control List, by
International Treaty and so on.
As you might expect this way, way bigger than you might imagine.
As you can see, this one was sent out and signed by REI, and it is one
of many identical fraudulent SED and related documents they used for
their export fraud
I filed over 1000 pages of related exhibits in the Federal case, all
like this, and many far, far more interesting.
-jma
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James M. Atkinson
President and Sr. Engineer
"Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting"
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The more complex the body of rules, the more enforcement is selective.
Phrases taken from three messages in this thread:
Shippers Export Declaration
ECCN
international treaty
federal law
end user license number
U.S. State Department
22 CFR 121.1
ITAR creep
Export Administration Regulation
increase in prosecutorial staff
required to self-report violations
how the regulations are enforced depends on the person interpreting
updated U.S. Munitions list
adjusted Commerce Control List
Bureau of Industry and Security
it doesn't matter how long you've been making it
extreme shades of gray on dual use
data retention
Government Purchase Rights
--dan