Businessman Michael Power is over $400,000 in the red due to a foul up with a Chinese company.
Powell the chief executive officer of Snap-On Engineering and Construction Services Inc says last July he ordered forty 55-gallon drums of Oxytril (herbicide) from the Chinese company Shenyang Weiba Chemicals Trade Company Limited, but he received the shipment in November it was fa mixture of water and ethlyne (liquid commonly used in radiators and batteries).
“When the product arrived here in the country, it was totally different to the product that we ordered. We carried out investigations by … having analysts (at) the Government lab do specific tests for us on the product, and the product proved to be completely different to what we ordered. We ordered ioxynil and bromoxynil, and the product we received, was a mixture of glycol, which is a water-based compound, almost 70 per cent water", Powell told journatist
Speaking to journalists from the company’s Grove, St George location, Power said its reputation was now “on the line” and he was doubtful that he would be able to recover any of the losses incurred.The products were ordered for the Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BMC). .
According to Power the contract with BAMC was worth about $320,000 and his company has so far spent more than $100,000 in such expenses as tests, customs duties and back-and-forth documentation in seeking to recover its money.
The businessman said he held several meetings with officials from the Chinese Embassy over the matter during the last six months but all of them has been futile.
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