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<pre>Small producers participating to my site (the richest has 2100 trees, just
like Jamal Sadoun's courtyard in Jordan...) ask me how to sell a 12 bottles
box into USA, maybe with some cured olives as gift.

I guess it's almost impossible, because shipping fees for small packets are
so high that easily double the price of the oil; however I read the FDA and
US Customs sites (downloading more than 10 Meg of pages...) but it's almost
unclear about olive oil: I saw bureaucracy is not an Italian prerogative :-)

These producers are "small enterprises" (1 or 2 people) with low income
(mainly less than 5.000$/yr): must they be submitted to every strange FDA
regulamentation (e.g. food labeling, analysis and so on) or there is an
escape?

Moreover, as you know, every time we press oil we have a different oil,
because our pressing season is from november to march, so spring analysis
are different from fall ones, and we must label each pressing separately.

Can somebody give me a clue or, better, a URL?

Thanks in advance!

Marco Bernardini
webmaster@taggiasca.com
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