Re: Re:Export/Import and hybridizers
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Re:Export/Import and hybridizers
- From: L* K*
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 09:17:29 -0800
From: "Leroy Kriese" <ambrosia@silk.net>
This brings up some interesting topics and I have wanted to make a posting
and a query as to peoples opinions. Being a small business entrepreneur a
lot of my thinking is slanted that way.
I think I looked at every one of Tamberg's pages and found some interesting
plants. I did eventually find the note about JPW. I am still doing the
nursery thing fulltime so I have the time to answer peoples questions and
business queries. From a time stand point, to answer individual queries
generated from a web site is a very time consuming thing.
As for the export/import thing I have done it since I started my mail order
business but I probably have made little money at it from a realistic
viewpoint. Exported plants in order to pass inspection for a phytosanitary
certificate must be thoroughly washed and cleaned. It adds a lot of extra
time to the process. I don't trust the mail over the border (from bad past
experience) so I take it across myself and put it in the US Postal system
which is as fast or faster delivery than mailing a shipment in Canada. I
usually try to plan it so I can do all the US orders in one trip but it
still is a lot of time and worry. It makes a nice day trip and I don't
really expect to be economical, but I enjoy the drive south and usually kick
around south of the border for awhile.
The export/import restrictions have become far less than they used to be and
I have never had any problems at US customs.
One thing I noticed is that a lot of smaller US specialty nurseries are no
longer shipping outside the US. We are lucky in having some excellent US
suppliers of Siberians that still do the export thing. For other plants like
daylilies especially, I have noticed an increase each year in the number of
nurseries deciding not to export out of the US. I guess business is so good
down there that it is not worth the trouble. It is a little disappointing
when you want some special plants.
I hope that the fine US suppliers of iris don't have any plans to shut down
the export part of their business in the near future, but I do understand
that the US market is probably all they really need.
Leroy Kriese, Ambrosia Gardens
http://www.silk.net/personal/ambrosia/index.htm
Zone 5, Vernon, BC Canada
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