Klarinet Archive - Posting 000188.txt from 1997/09

From: "Brian Ackerman" <ackerman@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: Greenline
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 1997 00:14:45 -0400

That's a good point to which I don't know the answer. One medium sized
manufacturer has told me that quite a few suppliers are falling over
themselves to supply them with African Blackwood, and there is certainly no
shortage at the moment. Perhaps in the long-term future there may be a
problem.
Brian Ackerman.

ps:- I like the "black market" bit. Was that intended as a pun?

> Roger Shilcock wrote:-
> That's interesting!
> If it's really that cheap, how come the supply is supposed to be
> endangered? Perhaps some development economist of standing should have a
> few quiet words on this with the governments of (e.g.) Tanzania and
> Mozambique. Is there a black market?