The Pitfalls Of Importing !

[Alycidon]

Looking for pure ash packed in crates <20% MC, 25cm delivered throughout the UK 1m/3 and 2m/3 crates. Crates to be made of square sawn boards, no waney edges. Interested pm me your best price on full loads ie 26 x 2m/3 or 52 x 1m/3.

 

Not much point posting that here, most of the people here offering us imported kiln dried are also trying to sell direct to our customers. Your volume helps them buy better so be better able to undercut you at a future date. At least one company I investigated is no more than an office above a shop. I suspect product is shipped direct to the end customer from the country of supply.

 

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[Lucan]

Latvian firewood i import cannot be beaten on quality or price, believe me if anyone wants to supply me with the same quality at the same price with homegrown firewood I will happily sign up a contract with them.

 

Looking for pure ash packed in crates <20% MC, 25cm delivered throughout the UK 1m/3 and 2m/3 crates. Crates to be made of square sawn boards, no waney edges. Interested pm me your best price on full loads ie 26 x 2m/3 or 52 x 1m/3.

 

The quality is the firewood at 25cm and <20%MC, the stacking in crates of certain sizes has nothing to do with quality of the firewood product. If you're going to say no one in the UK can match the quality at least be clear you mean quality of it's presentation, not solely the product itself. I know presentation is important but to say Latvian firewood is universally better quality than UK because it comes neatly packed is incorrect.

[gensetsteve]

We could all buy cheap products from abroad to sell to our fellow country men but where do our customers get their wages to buy our products if we put them all out of work. What happens to all the skills when we decide chinese tools are not worth getting out the packet. Not everyone can make formula one car parts and war heads.

[forestry]

The quality is the firewood at 25cm and <20%MC, the stacking in crates of certain sizes has nothing to do with quality of the firewood product. If you're going to say no one in the UK can match the quality at least be clear you mean quality of it's presentation, not solely the product itself. I know presentation is important but to say Latvian firewood is universally better quality than UK because it comes neatly packed is incorrect.

 

Where did I say no one in the UK can match the quality ?

 

Where did I say Latvian firewood is universally better quality ?

 

Should have gone to specsavers.

[forestry]

We could all buy cheap products from abroad to sell to our fellow country men but where do our customers get their wages to buy our products if we put them all out of work. What happens to all the skills when we decide chinese tools are not worth getting out the packet. Not everyone can make formula one car parts and war heads.

 

You've lost me on that one.

[gensetsteve]

You've lost me on that one.

 

Good

[Lucan]

Where did I say no one in the UK can match the quality ?

 

Where did I say Latvian firewood is universally better quality ?

 

Should have gone to specsavers.

 

Er here?

 

Latvian firewood i import cannot be beaten on quality or price.

[eggsarascal]

Er here?

 

Fair point!

[Logsnstuff]

You've lost me on that one.

 

your imports are doing away with the harvesting,planting, drainage, haulage, processing jobs, vehicle sales, fuel, mechanics to name a few examples because all these people will have no jobs when you undercut locally sourced timber, not rocket science to see the potential knock on effects. crates delivered on foreign lorries fuelled on the continent and paying no tax into uk coffers how is this a good thing?

[ShooTa]

because its comes back to us via brussels in the form of single farm payments --- no wait .. it goes to france..........