If you were a shipper or a producer, would you voluntarily use a smaller box or bag
size and increase your packaging cost, in this case, by 13%?
If a Canadian producer must go through the expense of bagging or boxing entire
truck-loads of potatoes rather than just loading them into a transport truck they will
use the full 22.6 kg container that they have been allowed. Admittedly if we already
had equipment set up for 20 kg bags then most likely the producer wouldn't go through
the expense of retooling for a 2.6 kg increase.
The point I want to raise here is that a US agency was using non-SI units in dealing
with an international matter.
greg
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Gregory Peterson, M.Sc.
Molecular Genetics Diversity Technician
Technicien en Deversit�s G�n�tique Mol�culaire
Plant Gene Resources of Canada, AAFC
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>>> Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-04-27 12:02:21 >>>
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Gregory Peterson wrote:
> ...
> the US is restricting our potatoes to 50-pound bags ...
>
> following are the specific conditions outlined in the agreement...
>
> ...potatoes can move in packages of up to 50 pounds, ...
Packages of 20 kg satisfy this restriction. "Up to" does not
mean "must be"; and there is no need to repackage the potatoes except
in the downward direction for consumers, e.g. 10 kg, 5 kg, 2 kg.
