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Originally Posted by bronco67
I have no idea what that article was about....
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This thing has been going on for a while now.
There's Lacey Act which was originally intended to prevent the poaching of wildlife on American land (in the early 1900s). Thanks to radical environmentalists and agitators like Soros, it has been expanded as a way to police global trade in forest goods. The Lacey Act requires a documented chain of possession for anything sold in the US. It also requires US companies to obey local laws (or a US interpretation of those laws, even one that that country might not use).
In 2009 Gibson's offices were raided over wood from Madagascar. Gibson filed a lawsuit in protest and as a result was raided again. this time over wood from India. No charges have ever been filed in either of those cases. Each time the government said they were "simply investigating".
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Juszkiewicz (the Gibson CEO) issued a statement saying the government contends "the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department's interpretation of a law in India."
See what I mean about US courts interpreting foreign law under the Lacey Act?
The dispute is over Indian Ebony, all completely documented and legal except for this interpretation business. The Indian government "prohibits the export of sawn wood" but does not prohibit the export of veneers, sheets of woods that have already been worked on. The Feds say the wood was falsely declared as veneers because some assembly is still done in the U.S rather than India.
Worse, says Juszkiewicz, the government told him if he would just have all of the work outsourced to India, the problem would go away. Yes, we've had the worst employment month since World War II and someone in the government that created this mess is telling an American company to outsource more jobs.
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