Comment from Rankin Hobbs

Document ID: APHIS-2009-0016-0005
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Animal And Plant Health Inspection Service
Received Date: September 02 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: September 2 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: August 27 2009, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: October 26 2009, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80a1b3e7
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This is comment on Proposed Rule

Wood Packaging Material Used in Domestic Commerce

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Being an employer and owner of a business in the US, this seems like a significantly anti-business proposal. Our business sells material on pallets both domestically and internationally. Our international shipments require heat treated pallets and we pay a significant premium for those pallets vs use of recycled wood pallets for domestic shipments. If the law is changed requiring heat treating of pallets, my business will be forced to either eat the cost or pass it onto our customers. Given the current state of our business (bad), we cannot afford to eat this cost (it is significant to us) and we don't have pricing power to pass it on to customers. Quite simply, this proposal sounds ridiculous and bad for all parties! I lose, my customers lose, the US consumer loses, etc.....who wins here?