Otherwise, colloquially known as the Mason-Dixon line
>________________________________ > From: Ted Eckert <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2013 12:44 PM >Subject: RE: NRTL North of the 40th parallel - Off Topic > >Let me clarify that my response is intended only in jest and is not intended >as a critical response. (I don't know how well emoticons work on this >list-server.) > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ted Eckert [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 8:29 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: NRTL North of the 40th parallel - Off Topic > >I know I'm getting pedantic here. The 40th parallel runs across the middle of >the United States. U.S. Cities north of the 40th parallel include Northbrook >Illinois, Newtown Connecticut, Peabody Massachusetts, Courtland New York and a >few other headquarter cities of test laboratories on OSHA's NRTL list. A quick >check shows that MET Labs in Blaltimore (at 39 degrees north) is just about >the only NRTL with headquarters south of the 40th parallel. > >Ted Eckert >Compliance Engineer >Microsoft Corporation >47° 40' 10"N >122° 7' 26"W >[email protected] > >The opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my >employer. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: John Woodgate [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 12:24 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: NRTL North of the 40th parallel > >In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, >1 Mar 2013, Peter Tarver <[email protected]> writes: > >>In case you haven't seen it yet, an NRTL/SCC lab has instituted >>invoicing practices where factory product audits will be billed >>separately for every global region from a financial entity in that >>region. Your companies will be burdened with having to add additional >>suppliers to your financial systems in order to pay invoices >>originating from these international subsidiaries in the local currencies. > >I suspect that this practice will become very common, as governments try to >prevent tax avoidance. It is currently common practice to invoice everything >from a subsidiary in a low-tax country and balance the P/Ls of the other >subsidiaries by internal accounting means that do not attract tax. >-- >OOO - Own Opinions Only. See www.jmwa.demon.co.uk SHOCK HORROR! Dinosaur-like >DNA found in chicken and turkey meals John Woodgate, J M Woodgate and >Associates, Rayleigh, Essex UK > >- >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc >discussion list. 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