ANALYSIS OF ISPM 15 AND ITS IMPACT ON THE WOOD PALLET INDUSTRY

摘要

A few years ago, the age of globalization hit home for one small-business owner in southeast Iowa. Randolph Woodroffe, the owner and operator of Woodroffe Sawmill, Inc., employs about eight men at any given time in his wood pallet manufacturing business. He currently manufactures about thirty thousand pallets a year that are used in international transport. Yet, in 2005, Mr. Woodroffe found his small business subject to regulation by the International Plant Protection Convention.