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c0lo writes:
An Australian blogger shares his personal experience with orders put on hold by the Australian subsidiary of Element 14 (the former Farnell shop), reportedly based on a watch list maintained by US govt.
From the blog:
The counter person wasn't sure, so checked with someone else who came and wasn't 100% sure, but knew that the system does automatically flag orders based on various identifiers. It could have possibly been one of those stupid US government trade restriction things, because, you know capacitors and opamps can be used by evil terrorists and the like... (International customers have to fill out silly forms with US distributors and manufacturers saying we won't use the parts in nuclear weapons - seriously)
But they enquired further with someone else and the word came back that it wasn't the parts that had been flagged, it was my NAME that was flagged. And they said it was a US government watch list of some description. I was stunned, and it seemed like they didn't quite understand why I was so shocked at this. Because, you know, the whole world has to just sit by and let the US government dictate everything at will.
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So lets see if I have this straight - An Australian subsidiary, owned by a UK parent company, listed on the UK stock exchange, has an ordering system that automatically matches generic names against some secret US Government watch list, and flags those orders and puts them on hold, for parts that are already stocked in Australia, are likely not made in the US, and likely have come from the main UK warehouse. Call me stupid, but something doesn't seem right with that...
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday February 26 2014, @11:26PM
No David Jones on either of those lists.
The first is only a list of people who have had their Assets seized (usually related to terrorism or Drug smuggeling),
The second can't EXPORT certain things out of the United States, almost all of those things are Chemicals, and almost all of those people are already in prison.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Angry Jesus on Thursday February 27 2014, @12:05AM
No David Jones on either of those lists.
You are right. I made a leap of logic from the Element 14 representative referring to a "denied parties list" and assumed they meant the "denied persons list." Still doesn't invalidate the point that these lists exist.
The first is only a list of people who have had their Assets seized (usually related to terrorism or Drug smuggeling),
From the SDN link "U.S. persons are generally prohibited from dealing with them"
The second can't EXPORT certain things out of the United States
True but in a deliberately misleading way. They can't export certain things themselves, nor can exporters sell to them.