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DHL Settles Export Controls Case for $9.4 Million

International Law Office
December 11, 2009

On August 6, 2009, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced a joint settlement agreement of allegations that DHL unlawfully aided and abetted the unauthorized exportation of goods to Syria, Iran and Sudan in 2004 and also failed to comply with applicable recordkeeping requirements with respect to hundreds of exports.

This Sidley Update was republished by ILO in its Trade & Customs Newsletter.