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Case No. NPW-1211
The Honorable Dean Heller
U.S. House of Representatives
400 South Virginia Street, Suite 502
Reno, NV 89502
Dear Represntative Heller:
Thank you for your correspondence of July 14, 2010, requesting review of an application submitted by your constituent, Pacific Coast Flange, Inc.. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") received Pacific Coast Flange's application for a license to import pipe flanges from Dalian Orient Pipe on July 14, 2010. On July 20, 2010, OFAC notified both Pacific Coast Flanges and U.S. Customs and Border Protection that Dalian Orient Pipe Components, Co., Ltd. is not blocked pursuant to 31 C.F.R. Part 544. Accordingly, the goods are not blocked, and an OFAC license is not required to import the goods. A copy of the notification letter is enclosed for your reference.
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1) Case No. NPW-1211 and Case No. NPW-1165 are interesting as an apparent case of "mistaken identity."
LIMMT Economic and Trade Company, Ltd. ("LIMMT") "a Chinese firm, was designated by Treasury on June 13, 2006, for providing material support to Iran's missile program." Li Fangwei, the "the commercial manager of LIMMT," was designated in 2009, along with a number of other Chinese entities that were front companies for LIMMT. (See https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg84.aspx, 4/7/2009). On December 15, 2009, the government-funded NGO called the "Wisconsin Project" issued a report claiming to have discovered that "Dalian Orient Pipe Components Co., Ltd" was an alias of LIMMT.[1] "[I]nformation contained in [the] report was presented to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in mid-December 2009," and resulted in the designation of one Chinese entity, but not Dalian Orient Pipe Components Co., Ltd. The report was...