According to its Annual report filed with the SEC for fiscal year 2019: "“As a global biopharmaceutical company, we conduct business in multiple jurisdictions throughout the world. During 2019, our activities included supplying medicine and medical products (Pfizer products) for patient and consumer use in Iran. We ship Pfizer products to Iran, and conduct related activities, in accordance with licenses issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and other U.S. and non-U.S. governmental entities, and in line with our corporate policies. We will continue our global activities to improve the health and well-being of patients and consumers in a manner consistent with applicable laws and our corporate policies. To our knowledge, none of our activities during 2019 are required to be disclosed pursuant to ITRSHRA.”"
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According to its Annual Report filed with the SEC for fiscal year 2013: "As a global biopharmaceutical company, we conduct business in multiple jurisdictions throughout the world. During 2013, our activities included supplying life-saving medicines and medical products (Pfizer products) for patient and consumer use in Iran and Syria. We ship Pfizer products to Iran and Syria, and conduct related activities, in accordance with licenses issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and other U.S. and non-U.S. governmental entities, and in line with our corporate policies. We will continue our global activities to improve the health and well-being of patients and consumers in a manner consistent with applicable laws and our corporate policies.
To our knowledge, none of our activities during 2013 is required to be disclosed pursuant to ITRSHRA, with the following possible exceptions: Pursuant to U.S. government authorizations, Pfizer, through a non-U.S. subsidiary, shipped Pfizer products to authorized customers in Iran. In 2013, some of these shipments, which were arranged and effectuated by a third-party logistics company, were sent to Iran on aircraft owned or operated by Iran Air or Aban Air. These air carriers are designated under the Executive Orders. Pfizer neither entered into agreements with these designated air carriers nor made any direct payments to these carriers. Pfizer paid air freight expenses associated with these shipments to the third-party logistics company, in the amount of approximately euro 43,716. We have voluntarily self-disclosed this matter to the U.S. government. We have instructed our third-party logistics companies not to use air carriers designated under the Executive Orders to ship Pfizer products in the future, and we are implementing additional controls to address this issue."
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According to its Annual Report filed with the SEC for fiscal year 2012: "As a global biopharmaceutical company, we conduct business in multiple jurisdictions throughout the world. During 2012, our activities included supplying life-saving medicines, nutritional supplements and other medical products (Pfizer products) for patient and consumer use in Iran and Syria. U.S. law allows us to seek and rely on licenses issued by OFAC to supply Pfizer products to customers in these countries, for both human and animal use. We ship these Pfizer products pursuant to such licenses, and we conduct our activities in accordance with our internal policies, which follow requirements set forth in the laws of the U.S. and other applicable jurisdictions. We will continue our global activities to improve the health and well-being of humans and animals in a manner consistent with applicable laws and our internal policies.
To our knowledge, none of our activities during 2012 are required to be disclosed pursuant to ITRSHRA, with the following possible exceptions:
- Pursuant to U.S. government authorizations, during 2012, our Animal Health business unit, through a non-U.S. affiliate, shipped Pfizer products to authorized customers in Iran. These shipments were backed by letters of credit issued by Bank Tejarat to a non-U.S. company acquired by Pfizer in 2011. The letters of credit were issued by Bank Tejarat and the Pfizer products were shipped to customers in Iran prior to the Bank’s designation as a Specially Designated National (SDN) under Executive Order 13382. After Bank Tejarat’s designation, Pfizer’s non-U.S. affiliate sought payment from Bank Tejarat by presenting shipping documentation to the non-U.S. affiliate’s bank in Europe and, as a result, subsequently received certain payments. Not all funds related to these transactions have been received from Bank Tejarat. Where required, we have requested U.S. government authorization to process the funds received and to be received. For funds received in 2012, our estimated gross revenues associated with these transactions were euro 222,962. Other than as set forth in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements—Note 18. Segment, Geographic and Other Revenue Information, including the tables therein captioned Selected income statement information, Geographic Information and Significant Product Revenues in our 2012 Financial Report and in the table captioned Revenues by Segment and Geographic Area in the MD&A in our 2012 Financial Report, we do not allocate net profit on a country-by-country or activity-by-activity basis and, thus, cannot provide specific net profits ascribable to this activity. Pfizer’s net profits attributable to these transactions in 2012 were a fraction of the gross revenues.
- Pursuant to U.S. government authorizations, during 2012, our Emerging Markets business unit, through a non-U.S. affiliate, shipped Pfizer products to authorized customers in Iran. The shipments were backed by letters of credit issued by Bank Tejarat prior to its designation as an SDN under Executive Order 13382. As a result of the shipments, which also occurred prior to Bank Tejarat’s designation, Pfizer’s non-U.S. affiliate sought payment from Bank Tejarat by presenting shipping documentation to the non-U.S. affiliate’s bank in Europe. In some cases, the presentation of documents occurred before Bank Tejarat’s designation, and in other cases after such designation. Not all funds related to these transactions have been received from Bank Tejarat. We have received U.S. government authorization for several of the foregoing transactions with Bank Tejarat and, where required, have requested U.S. government authorization for the other transactions with Bank Tejarat. For funds received in 2012, our estimated gross revenues associated with these transactions were euro 397,071. As noted above, we do not allocate net profits on a country-by-country or activity-by-activity basis and, thus, cannot provide specific net profits ascribable to this activity. Pfizer’s net profits attributable to these transactions in 2012 were a fraction of the gross revenues.
- Pursuant to U.S. government authorizations, during 2012, our Emerging Markets business unit, through a non-U.S. affiliate, shipped Pfizer products to an authorized customer in Syria. These shipments were backed by a letter of credit issued by Syria International Islamic Bank (SIIB) prior to SIIB’s designation as an SDN under Executive Order 13382. As a result of the shipment, which occurred prior to SIIB’s designation as an SDN, Pfizer’s non-U.S. affiliate sought payment from SIIB by presenting shipping documentation to the non-U.S. affiliate’s bank in Europe. Both the presentation of documents and the resulting payment occurred after SIIB was designated as an SDN. Where required, we have requested U.S. government authorization to process the funds received. Our estimated gross revenues in 2012 associated with this transaction were euro 315,960. As noted above, we do not allocate net profits on a country-by-country or activity-by-activity basis and, thus, cannot provide specific net profits ascribable to this activity. Pfizer’s net profits attributable to this transaction in 2012 were a fraction of the gross revenues.
We have informed our customers that, in connection with future transactions with Pfizer, Bank Tejarat, SIIB and any other banks designated as SDNs under Executive Order 13382 are not to be used."
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Over the last three presidential administrations, the United States government has granted Pfizer 60 special licenses to do business in Iran. A subsidiary of Pfizer, Wyeth, additionally received 17 such licenses (New York Times, "Companies with Permission to Bypass Sanctions," 12/24/10).