Day 069 - 19 Dec 94 - Page 33


     
     1        A.  No, not all the time.
     2
     3   Q.   What, from time to time, or in the last five years?
     4        A.  When we look at this, it was for a brief period of
     5        time.  We do have what we call a developmental licensee,
     6        which is a special licensing agreement.  He has his own
     7        patty processing manufacturing facilities, and he has the
     8        suppliers that supplies the raw materials.  He does
     9        basically everything.
    10
    11   Q.   In El Salvador?
    12        A.  That is correct.
    13
    14   Q.   How long has that been in existence?
    15        A.  Excuse me?
    16
    17   Q.   What I am saying is that, if Procasa was exporting to
    18        El Salvador -----
    19        A.  Yes, it was for a short period of time.
    20
    21   Q.   How many years, can you remember?
    22        A.  It was less than one.
    23
    24   Q.   It just happened to be at the time when you did this
    25        survey?
    26        A.  Yes.  I have seen this survey only once.
    27
    28   Q.   So where did the beef for El Salvador originate from at
    29        other times?
    30        A.  It has changed throughout the times.  El Salvador has
    31        gone through, you know, a civil ---
    32
    33   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Civil war?
    34        A.  --  civil war for many years.  During those times they
    35        used to be self-sufficient.  During the civil war, most of
    36        the cattle was killed, so Nicaragua has been supplying
    37        El Salvador in the last five years or so.
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  So before that, it was all local, was it?
    40        A.  That is correct.
    41
    42   Q.   As far as you remember?
    43        A.  That is correct.  It used to be the economy in Central
    44        America, so they were self-sufficient in mostly everything,
    45        including cattle.
    46
    47   Q.   If we move over to Puerto Rico, again, you filled out all
    48        these ones, yourself?
    49        A.  Yes.
    50 
    51   Q.   All the rest of them -- no, until we get to Finland.  When 
    52        you filled these in, what did you do; did you phone up the 
    53        supplier or McDonald's in those countries?
    54        A.  No.  What I did is, I knew who the suppliers were, and
    55        in this country and in most of the Caribbean we do not have
    56        meat plant, we do not have slaughterhouses.  We import the
    57        product from the US.  Those are directly our suppliers in
    58        the US.  OSI Industries, Normac, Tyson Foods are US
    59        industries, and they supply Puerto Rico as well as the
    60        Caribbean.

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