BBC: US will fine companies that boycott Israel

[budge]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 at 3:41pm Brian O. Sheppard x349393 wrote:
>
> US laws ban the participation by US nationals and companies in
> unsanctioned foreign government trade boycotts, especially the Arab
> League's boycott of Israel.
>
> The Department of Commerce has issued more than $26m
> (£16.7m) in fines and turned down export licences to
> those found violating the law.

say what?  how can they make it illegal?  what do they have
to do to 'prove' it?

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