Boeing on Thursday reached a $51 million settlement with the US State Department to resolve almost 200 export violations, including its unauthorized export of technical data to China, the State Department said.
The US aerospace company's export violations date back
years, and were all voluntarily disclosed, the State Department said in a
statement.
Among the violations it cited was Boeing's unauthorized
export of defense items as well as technical information exported to foreign
employees and contractors.
This included "unauthorized exports of technical
data" to China.
Under the terms of settlement, "Boeing will pay a civil
penalty of $51 million," the State Department said, adding that $24
million of the penalty would be suspended to allow Boeing to strengthen its
compliance program.
Boeing will also have to engage an "external special
compliance officer" for at least two years, and agree to at least two
external audits of its compliance program.
"We are committed to our trade controls obligations,
and we look forward to working with the State Department under the agreement
announced today," a Boeing spokesperson told AFP.
The spokesperson added that most of the 199 violations
"predate the significant improvements we have made to our trade controls
compliance program since 2020."
"We are committed to continuous improvement of that
program, and the compliance undertakings reflected in this agreement will help
us advance that objective."
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