The foreign-gas broadening parameter for fluoroform molecules interacting with nonpolar BCl3 molecule as perturber has been measured and the collision cross section has been determined. The results are pressure broadening coefficient Cw = (43 ± 1) [kHz/Pa] for J = 1 ← 0 rotational transition of CHF3 molecule in mixture with BCl3 gas, and collision cross section σexp = 294.0 [Å2]. Experimental linewidth parameter is interpreted using Anderson–Tsao–Curnutte as well as Murphy–Boggs theories for the mixed- interaction case. From this analysis a value of molecular quadrupole moment Q = (4.1 ± 0.2) [DÅ2] of boron trichloride molecule has been obtained.