[Milsurplus] [armyradios] New Shipping Restrictions

[J. Forster]

The UN is a de-facto "World Government".  No surprise at all to me.

Thanks VERY much for the links,
-John

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> Found the information below on a pallet manufacturers website. This is
> probably the reason for the hassle from the U.K.. Neither option below
> sounds that great for the electronics inside the crate, never mind the
> cost
> or difficulty involved in finding someone in your area certified to treat
> the crate.
>
> You wouldn't think that the United Nations would have a hand in regulating
> something so common as the  <http://www.buckeyediamond.com/pallets.html>
> wooden pallet, would you? Well, in March 2002, the International Plant
> Protection Convention (IPPC), an international treaty relating to plant
> health, passed a measure requiring that all solid wood packaging
> (including
> both hardwoods and softwoods) be heat-treated or fumigated before they can
> be imported into any of the
> <http://www.fao.org/Legal/TREATIES/004s-e.htm>
> member countries that are part of the convention. That changed everything
> in
> the pallet business. The IPPC edict, known as ISPM 15, gives wood
> packaging
> manufacturers the option of heat treatment, requiring that the wood core
> temperature reaches a minimum of 56 degrees Centigrade (132.8 F), for 30
> minutes, or that the wood be fumigated to a prescribed specification with
> methyl bromide. All ISPM 15 compliant wood is then stamped with an
> <http://na.fs.fed.us/ea/palletnews/newsletters/mar04.htm> approved mark
> signifying that is meets the ISPM 15 standards.
>
>
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> From: armyradios at yahoogroups.com [mailto:armyradios at yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of J. Forster
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 1:53 PM
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net; Vintage-Military-RADAR at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: armyradios at yahoogroups.com; vmars at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [armyradios] New Shipping Restrictions
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> I've been trying to ship some WW II electronics to the UK from the US.
>
> It turns out that the UK authorities are concerned about critters inside
> the crate.... never mind that the crate has been sealed for about 60
> years!
>
> SIGH! Any ideas other than shipping the guts and leaving the crate?
>
> -John
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