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Chinese Evade U.S. Sanctions on Iran

(Wall Street Journal) Peter Fritsch - Chinese companies banned from doing business in the U.S. for selling missile technology to Iran continue to do a brisk trade with American companies, according to an analysis of shipping records. A unit of state-owned China Precision Machinery Import-Export Corp., for example, has made nearly 300 illegal shipments to U.S. firms since a ban was imposed on CPMIEC in mid-2006, according to an analysis by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. "We spend a lot of time convincing other countries that we need tighter sanctions on Iran when we need to better enforce our own laws already on the books," says Wisconsin Project director Gary Milhollin.
2010-01-04 08:37:17
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