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Case No. IA-16124
Sanjay Garg, Manager, International Operations
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.
International Operations Division
Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003
India
Dear Mr. Garg:
This responds to your correspondence dated May 11, 2011 (the “Application”), to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), on behalf of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. (“Bharat”), an India-based company, requesting an OFAC license to export equipment produced using U.S.-origin technology to Iran. Specifically, Bharat wishes to supply six heat recovery steam generators (“HRSGs”) to Iran. According to the Application, the end user for the HRSGs will be the Iran Power Development Company (the “IPDC”), an Iranian Government entity. The Application states that Bharat has a technology collaboration agreement with Vogt Power International, Inc. (“VPI”), a U.S. company, for the design and manufacture of the HRSGs, which Bharat manufactures at its plant in...
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1) “Heat recovery steam generators” are large, complex machines as described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_steam_generator. The applicant here is a non-USP not subject to the ITSR that wants to export Indian-origin HRSGs to India but has a “technology collaboration agreement with…a U.S. company, for the design and manufacture of the HRSGs” which entails the USP providing technology, design, and engineering support. OFAC determines that, as it relates to the prohibition at 560.205 on re-exports of CCL items to Iran, the HRSGs could be exported to Iran without violating that prohibition “[t]o the extent that U.S. origin content is incorporated into a foreign-made product outside the United States, and the proposed reexport otherwise satisfies the de minimis conditions of ITSR sections 560.205 and