THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34 Friday, November 1, 1980
3-M Pays Penalty for Alleged Arab Boycott Compliance
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WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing (3-M) Co. of
St. Paul has agreed to pay
civil penalties of $137,500
for a total of 230 alleged vio-
lations committed by the
parent company and nine
subsidiaries of U.S. laws
against the Arab boycott of
Israel, the Department of
Commercen announced.
Out of the total fine,
$80,000 is for late reporting
or failure to report 133 in-
stances of alleged violations
and $57,500 is for supplying
prohibited information
about the sale of U.S. goods
to Middle East buyers in 97
alleged instances.
In addition, the 3-M
organization agreed to
strengthen its existing
anti-boycott compliance
program related to the pro-
visions of the U.S. Export
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In making the an-
nouncement, the De-
partment of Commerce
pointed out that these al-
leged violations were
"voluntarily brought to
the attention of the Office
of Anti-Boycott Com-
pliance" of the Depart-
ment of Commerce by
3-M.
The alleged violations
implicated 3-M itself, its
subsidiary, 3-M-Middle
East in St. Paul, the Bird
Corp. in Palm Springs,
Calif. and the following
subsidiaries overseas: 3-1\
Deutschland in West Ger-
many; 3-M Belgium; 3-M
United Kingdom; 3-M Mid-
dle East in Nicosia, Cyprus;
3-M Nederland; 3-M Italia;
and 3-M France.
According to the Com-
merce Department, the par-
ent company itself trans-
ferred U.S. produced goods
from St. Paul to Bandin,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait
and Egypt in the period Feb.
27, 1978-Feb. 6, 1979 that
created alleged violations of
the law.
Dan Hitt, assistant gen-
eral counsel for 3-M in St.
Paul, said that "We are
pleased that the Commerce
Department Saw fit to note
3-M's cooperation through-
out the investigation, re-
flecting the fact that every
shred of information bear-
ing on the settlement was
discovered and volunteered
by 3-M."
"Nearly all of the sub-
stantive violations did in
fact occur at a small
European facility that
was dealing with Middle
East customers only be-
cause normal 3-M opera-
tions in Lebanon were
disrupted by fighting in
Beirut," Hitt said.
"The people involved
were unaware of the corn-
pany's policy and U.S. regu-
lations because they nor-
mally were not involved in
transactions of this kind."
Hitt pointed out that
"outside the U.S., 3-M has
nationals in 50 countries
handling more than a quar-
ter of a million invoices a
month. We chose this set-
tlement rather than face the
potential for long and costly
litigation," he said. "Part of
the problem stems from a
fine point of the law. It is
lawful, for example, to say
on an invoice where goods
were made but it is illegal to
state that the goods were
not made in a boycotted
country."
He emphasized the -
"There should be no ques
tion as to our policy" which
is "to comply with all appro-
priate foreign laws and all
U.S. laws affecting overseas
commerce."
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World Airlines has been
placed on the Arab boycott
list, according to Reuters,
because TWA refused to an-
swer Arab Boycott Office
queries.
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