Release: Perles de Tahiti

[Nerida]

What a horrible looking bunch of pearls!! I guess the thing is, black South Seapearls come from more places than just French Polynesia, so maybe these weren't grown in Tahiti, and may have some other source? Truly awful though.

 

[pearlescence]

Swede is what a root vegetable is called here.... I assure you I did not mean people from Sweden!

 

[Sueki]

Splutter,
Jerin !
I just choked on my coffee !!

No, no, absolutely not calling you and your fellow countrymen vegetables.
It's just the name of that particular root veg. over here.......

 

[richipat]

Only one word....NASTY

 

[CLICLASP]

They are ugly. Who would buy these?

The question still remains : who sold them to put this quality on the market?
regular sale? off regulations sale?

 

[jerin]

Swede is what a root vegetable is called here.... I assure you I did not mean people from Sweden!

Luckily I consider myself to be a person with a cheerful temperament - otherwise our other members who have not read this post before are right now just certain to observe it thanks to your colourful picture

 

[pearlescence]

To continue this thread deviation, swedes are very good boiled and mashed with butter and pepper

 

[effisk]

Post just received from a pearl farmer in French Polynesia.

Il faut que tu saches que le gouvernement va enlever la taxe de 200fr sur le gramme.

The tax may be going bye-bye... I would wait for the official word before ordering discount pearls, however. It does not really jive with the current situation and these could just be rumors floating around the South Pacific.

Josh!
I see you on the board! What is the news behind the news?

The tax thing has been voted at the FP assembly earlier this month. The tax will be suspended until Jan 2010.

However some of the members of the assembly having stakes in the pearl industry (they are therefore not supposed to vote), opponents to this measure are asking the vote to be cancelled...

 

[effisk]

The tax is being discussed again. An amendment aiming at the removal of the tax has been proposed. The opposition propose a reduction of the tax instead. More here for French speakers.

 

[effisk]

A l'Assembl?e de la Polyn?sie fran?aise, les d?bats ont repris l? o? les repr?sentants les avaient laiss? la veille, ? savoir la suspension ou non du dispositif DSPE pour les perles. Chaque camp est rest? sur sa position d?j? d?fendue lors de l'?tude du collectif budg?taire. Finalement, la taxe sera suspendue du 1er octobre au 31 d?cembre 2008 malgr? l'opposition de certains perliculteurs.

The decision has eventually been taken: the tax is finally suspended until end of 2008.

 

[Marama]

on the newspaper of August, the 21st

on the newspaper of August, the 21st

Hello Everybody,

I am quite new to this forum, but I just want to inform all of you guys that the government of French Polynesia have voted the law to suspend the export tax from the 1st of october 2008 to the 31st of december 2008. It is quite official, as you can read it on the newspaper of the 21st of August.

cheers,
Marama

 

[CLICLASP]

Does someone know if GIE is dissolved as well as GIE offices all around the world ?

 

[pearlescence]

This is absurd, who will pay the redundancies of the staff, who then will be re-hired once the whole thing starts up again. It is typical political solution, a quick and whizzy fix

 

[CLICLASP]

The question might be absurd but sometimes reality is.
Looking for accurate informations which are very scarce at the time being

 

[effisk]

Does someone know if GIE is dissolved as well as GIE offices all around the world ?

Not the case. Additional funding has been given to the GIE to compensate for the suspension of the DPSE. http://perles.effisk.net/?373-production-commercialisation-promotion

There are no GIE Perles de Tahiti offices around the world that I know of.They have PR representatives and I believe nothing has been decided about the continuation/interruption of their activity for the GIE. We'll probably know more early october when a decision is made.

 

[pbazar]

The CPAA represents PDT in the US and has been given a proposed 2009 budget.

 

[Caitlin]

Hi Peter
Thanks for that note. Please keep us informed.

 

[effisk]

The CPAA represents PDT in the US and has been given a proposed 2009 budget.

Without disclosing any numbers, how is it compared to previous years?

 

[Mka4972]

Here is a message I received yesterday from PDT

Dear Marc,

I am sure that if the removing of the tax will apply, all merchandise will be exported.

The only thing that we have to be sure of, is the removing of the tax that supposedly should apply from October 1st to December 31 2008.

When the Government pass a law, the opposite side can ask for a revision that hold the text and it can take between one or two months before the law applies again. And I believe that this is what is happening right now.

I call the cell adviser at the customs office and through her experience there is no possible reimbursement during the revision because the removal of the tax apply only when it is all clear.

My advise is to not anticipate the law because you do not know exactly when it will apply. End of November or December?

Anyway, I will be asking the customs and the authorities often in order to give you the proper information on when the text will apply.

Sincerely,

Raitu Galenon

 

[pbazar]

Without disclosing any numbers, how is it compared to previous years?

The budget is significantly lower than the past with no co-op promotional money. I met with PDT and asked them to reconsider their allocation of funds dedicated to the US market. The Japanese’s are being given 10 times the funds. I told them to follow the pearls. The Japanese are wholesalers not consumers.

They said they would reconsider.