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U.S., Chinese Companies Sent Missile Parts to Iran, Treasury Says Companies' assets, transactions can be frozen under U.S. law By Jane Morse Washington File Staff Writer Washington -- The U.S. Department of the Treasury has designated four Chinese companies and one U.S. company as having supplied Iran's military with missile-related and dual-use components. The Chinese companies designated on June 13 are Beijing Alite Technologies Company Ltd. (ALCO); LIMMT Economic and Trade Company Ltd.; China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) and China National Precision Machinery Import/Export Corporation (CPMIEC). The U.S. representative office of CGWIC is G.W. Aerospace Inc., which is based in Torrance, California. According to the Treasury Department, the components and technology supplied to Iran were to be used for missiles with a range of up to 400 kilometer and capable of carrying chemical weapon warheads. The companies were designated under Executive Order 13382, an authority aimed at financially isolating proliferators of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), their supporters and those contributing to the development of missiles capable of delivering WMD. Designations under the executive order, which are administered by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, prohibit all transactions between the designees and any U.S. person, and freeze any assets the designees might have under U.S. jurisdiction. The U.S. government has applied various sanctions against the four Chinese companies in the past. In 2004, the State Department imposed sanctions against all four pursuant to the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 for transferring equipment and technology to Iran that was either controlled under multilateral export control lists or which had the potential to make a material contribution to WMD. Since 2003, CPMIEC also has been subject to an import ban under another directive, Executive Order 12938, as amended. "Governments worldwide are urged to take appropriate measures to ensure that their companies and financial institutions are not facilitating Iran's proliferation activities," Stuart Levey, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence (TFI) at the Treasury Department, said in a press notice released the same day. President Bush issued Executive Order 13382 on June 29, 2005. Recognizing the need for additional tools to combat the proliferation of WMD, the president signed the executive order authorizing the imposition of strong financial sanctions against not only WMD proliferators, but also against entities and individuals that provide support or services to them. In the annex to Executive Order 13382, the president identified eight entities operating in North Korea, Iran and Syria for their support of WMD proliferation. The order authorizes the secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the secretary of state, the attorney general and other relevant agency heads, to designate additional entities and individuals providing support or services to the entities identified in the annex to the order. In addition to the eight entities named in the annex of Executive Order 13382, the Treasury Department has designated 16 entities from North Korea, Iran, Switzerland and China and one Swiss individual as proliferators of WMD. For more information on U.S. policies, see The United <http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/east_asia_pacific/china.html> States and China and Arms <http://usinfo.state.gov/is/international_security/arms_control.html> Control and Non-Proliferation. The full text <http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/js4317.htm> of the press release is available on the U.S. Treasury Department's Web site. 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