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Pratt & Whitney (Pratt) agreed to pay
a $150,000 civil penalty

The U.S. Department of Commerce recently announced that Pratt & Whitney (Pratt) of East Hartford, Connecticut, agreed to pay a $150,000 civil penalty to settle charges that it committed 42 violations of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), despite the fact that Pratt voluntarily self-disclosed the violations and cooperated fully with the investigation. BIS charged that, Pratt failed to obtain the required Department of Commerce export licenses for controlled technical data relating to material coating and gas turbine engine components. According to Commerce, some of the charges stemmed from violations of the "deemed export" provisions of the EAR for releasing controlled technology in the United States to foreign nationals from various countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain without first obtaining a validated license.