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FPCD-77-75 1 (1977-08-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaacqu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LM103580 Jr - UNITED STATES GENEPAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE INTERNATIONkL DIVISION O FAR EAS- BRANCH PRINCE JONAH KUHIO KALAIIANAOLE FEDERAL BU.IILDING CDG ALA MOAftA BOULEVARD %HONOLULU. HAWAII 96813 NAUG 2 G 1977 C) The Honorable Leonard Unger American Ambassador U.S. Etrbassy Taipei., Taiwan Dear Mr. Ambassador: We have completed a survey of the merchandise control system administered by the U.S. Embassy in Taipei, Taiwan. The system is designed to control the importation, use, and disposal of duty-free commodities (personal vehicles, other personal property, and liquor) by U.S. Embassy and attached agency personnel in Taiwan. We found that the Embassy's management controls on vehicle and other personal property sales and on gifts and liquor sales could be improved. Taipei E-bassy officials were briefed on our observations and they generally agreed that the controls should be improved. The sale of personal property, particularly motor vehicles, abroad by American eiployees has heen criticized by members of Congress and the General Accounting Office because of profits that sellers have realized on the transa:tions. ProfiL-taking on sales of this kind is viewed as diminishing the stature of the American mission, damaging the United States imaze abroad, and resultingc ii undue personal advantage under circu7stances created in substantial part by reason of official Government service to which special customs and import privileges are attazhed. In a September 3, 1974, letter to Representative H. R. Gross we reported on the ad7-inistrative procedures of the U.S. Embassy, Lima, Peru, relating to sales of personal property where profits on such sales by U.S. Government employees were permitted. Sc~e of the same weaknesses we noted there exist at the U.S. Embassy, Taipei, Taiwan. ACCURATE REPORTING OF PERSONAL PROPERTY SALES IS NOT ASSURED The U.S. Embassy, Taipei, Taiwan, did not have a system for verifying or followinc up sales of personal property and the disposition of profits on such sales to assure :hat they were accurately reported and the profits nroperly distribute-. FPCD-77-75 G~

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