Certain Increase In Essential Oil Prices

[Guest guest]

On a good note.

The Climate Change should and will start making other areas ideal places for

raising ad nurturing these crops.

In the near future it may be possible the climate will be ideal for certain

plant species that provide rare oils.

 

Perhaps even the dear Myrrh may be regenerated,

 

(Just trying for a positive spin)

 

Blessings,

Leslie

 

-

" Butch Owen " <butchowen

 

Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:42 AM

Certain Increase In Essential Oil Prices

 

 

> Hi y'all,

>

> A few days ago I made a post to the group and down in the body of that

> post I mentioned that climate change this year and last has had an

> impact on essential oils prices .. for those who might not have read

> down that far I will mention it again now, but I'll not just hit on

> climate change .. I'll cover a few other conditions that drive prices

> and I'll do it in a drawn out way because its important for folks to

> understand the reasons. If they understand .. and plan .. they'll have

> less wrinkles in their faces and in their pocketbooks. ;-)

[Guest guest]

At 07:53 AM 9/6/2007, you wrote:

 

>I could drag this out with a lot more justification for the position I

>have taken above but I think it might bore folks .. those who accept my

>position as written won't be shocked to see prices increase world wide

>and those who don't accept this will accept it .. in time. ;-)

 

Butch, you neglected to mention two other factors... as well as the

horrible weather this year both in the UK and on the continent... even if

the supplies of the oils we want were ample and prices held firm... two

factors are escalating our costs:

 

The decline of the dollar.... against almost all currencies. those who

receive our newsletter have read some of the discussions...and an apology

for price increases. A month or so ago I brought in something from

Australia, identical order that I placed last year. The price in

Australian dollars was identical; the producer had not changed their

price. but MY actual cost in US dollars was about 58% higher than the

summer before. The Australian dollar became stronger, the US dollar became

weaker, and transportation costs skyrocketed. Anyone who doesn't count the

cost of transporting what they import as part of their cost for the product

is going to lose their shirt.

 

People are asking me for bulk quotes on products that I know I CAN replace,

but I'm almost afraid to quote because I have no idea what the replacement

is going to cost me.

 

As I said in our August newsletter, there are some weeks that I wish we

sold can openers! (not really!!!)

 

Another factor, not a huge cost, but puzzling. We are now paying customs

duty on products that we NEVER paid duty on before. I don't understand it,

but there's nothing I can do about it.

 

 

 

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