30734: Lucien (reply) Re: 30707: Benson,Query,RE: 30695: (news) Chamberlain: Fruit flies prompt US to block Haiti mango exports (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

from patlucien@yahoo.com

  Regarding the mango issue. The Haitian government has no control over the 
mango that is exported in the US.  Once the mango arrives in Port-au-Prince, it 
goes into the hot water treatment plant  and they are then sealed in a storage 
controlled also by USDA.  The mango exporters pay $600,000US (split equally 
among them regardless of the amount you are shipping) every year to USDA to be 
allowed to ship the mango and to cover the cost of the system.  The USDA hires 
its own crew and provides its own training to some locals and does all the 
inspection of the water treatment and storage.  The water treatment are build 
by the mango exporters ( about $200,000 and plus) but they are approved and 
inspected by USDA .   I would say that the exporters are paying their fair 
share to assure that the mangoes arrive sainly in the US