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FedEx Corporation

Illegal Exports to Taiwan

Date: 08/10/2000 (Date of Fine Announcement)

Misconduct Type: Import/Export

Enforcement Agency: Commerce

Contracting Party: None

Court Type: Administrative

Amount: $15,000

Disposition: Fine

Synopsis: The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security imposed $15,000 in civil penalties on Federal Express for allegedly facilitating the export of U.S.-origin equipment to a Denied Person and failing to maintain records of the subject transaction. The government alleged that FedEx in 1996 facilitated the export of semiconductor equipment from the United States to Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd., of Taipei, Taiwan and failed to maintain a proper record of the transaction.