Justin. Straight line graphs are people-made and are not necessarily the ones being referenced that are plots of global warming. Good question and there is another answer. Global warming is real. i.e., loss of and retreat of all of the major glaciers in the world. Loss of the snows of Kilimanjaro. One of the side effects of global warming is increased storminess due to all that polar ice... Billions of tons of water being melted and evaporated into the atmosphere. This leads to major disruptions in unexpected places.and loss of climatic consistency, e.g., below freezing temps in Florida, sometimes, and heat waves in the U.K. with flooding rain a few years ago. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Smith" <oothal@hotmail.com> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Is there a U.S. version of phytosanitary requirement > > Hi, > > > >From what I gather you are wanting to know if APHIS (US Customs) is using the newest rules for inspection for a Phyto when it issues a re-export phyto for shipments from the Netherlands through the US and on to Taiwan? > > > > Good question. It is my understanding that all official US Government documents are named/numbered/dated in some way. Anyone want to confirm that? Without knowing the NEW documents name/number/date it would be of no use to call any of the APHIS offices to ask if they are using the new rules. Because what ever book/paper they pull out of their desk will be to them the "newest rules." I have had that happen to me before more than once, though not in dealing with APHIS. > > > > If you know the number/name/date of the new rule, a call to the exact port that handles the re-export PHYTO to Taiwan "SHOULD" easily answer that question if they have the newest rules. I would guess that the port for Taiwan would be in Los Angeles California maybe. I have no idea on that. Prior paper work would tell you that. > > > > > > Justin > > Woodville, TX 8b/9a > > > > If global warming is real how come we here just had the lowest temps in over 20 years for this time of year? > > > > > > >> From: fierycloud2002@yahoo.com.tw >> To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:23:27 +0800 >> Subject: [pbs] Is there a U.S. version of phytosanitary requirement >> >> Hello Hafsteinn: >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> I think I should make my question more clearly. >> >> I had got several time of needs of replacement of phytosanitary certificate while importing from Netherlands. >> 1. Due to the full botanical name, only genus name is not always acceptable. Because the species in the same genus may still have different quarantine requirements , or even some of them are weed for Taiwan while other species are not. >> 2. There are always lack of some pest in the additional declarations on the phytosanitary certificate. >> 3. If the species are re-export,, the pest status of all the countries they are produced and repacked in will be considered. And re-export phyto is different from export phyto. >> 4. "Time lag". The inspector could only issue the phytosanitary certificate according to the manual now, even the newest quarantine requirement are just on the way to his office. (The inspector had contact the main office in Wageningen before shipping once time, but I still need to got a replacement finally at that time. ) >> So I would like to know that if the APHIS have release the newest manual to the inspectors or on the internet for reference. >> >> (Maybe It is just because that my orders are mostly not the usual bulk species such as Tulipa and lilium bulbs from Netherlands to Taiwan.) >> >> Best Regards >> Su-Hong-Ciao >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390709/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/