In April, 2006, Boeing paid a $15 million fine for violations of AECA and ITAR. Between 2000 and 2003, according to the Charging Letter of the State Department, Boeing shipped overseas without license 94 commercial jets with the BEI QRS-11 quarts rate sensors, or gyro-chips, embedded in the flight boxes, including 19 to China. In July 1993 the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) of the State Department issued a Commodity Jurisdiction (CJ) determination to BEI Technology Inc., the manufacturer of the device, ruling that the QRS-11 is a defense article controlled under the ITAR, being used in the guidance system of the Maverick missile.
