PLASTIC FANTASTIC
007: The man with the carbon fibre spool
 High-technology commodities like carbon fibre spools are part of the black list of goods that can no longer be exported to Iran (Photo: Toho Tenax) |
While it is debatable whether the US and EU sanctions on Iran are having the desired impact, one thing is clear: The American authorities are not joking around when it comes to attempts to export “high-technology commodities” to the Islamic Republic. That lesson was painfully learned by a New York resident who was sentenced to 92 months in jail for trying to export a spool of carbon fibre from the US via the Philippines to Iran. Alas, plasticity is not a characteristic typical of the law or the undercover agents the culprit was in touch with. M surely would be proud…
17.08.2012 Plasteurope.com [223122-0]
Published on 17.08.2012