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MARCH 10, 1994CARTEL MEETING IN MAUI, HAWAII CARTEL MEMBERS FIX PRICES ON A GLOBAL BASIS Segment 4 - March 10, 1994, Maui, Hawaii - Video Tape
UNKNOWN MALE: (ui).
UNKNOWN MALE: (ui).
WHITACRE: Anybody got a calculator?
MIMOTO: (ui) calculation.
WHITACRE: This makes it, what does it calculate over 72 cents, isn't it?
YAMAMOTO: It's 74 cents.
MIMOTO: 74 cents?
YAMAMOTO: Yeah.
WHITACRE: 74 is it?
YAMAMOTO: Uhm, seventy now.
WHITACRE: Good. Was a week ago.
UNKNOWN MALE: (ui).
WHITACRE: (ui) cents with a...
VETTER: Is 1.16.
WHITACRE: 1.16.
YAMAMOTO: 72? 74.
VETTER: 72 cents?
YAMAMOTO: Oh. No, no, 74.
VETTER: 74?
WILSON: A $1.16.
VETTER: 74 cents? A $1.16, yeah?
MIMOTO: Well...
UNKNOWN MALE: Oh, that's okay.
WHITACRE: That's right in the $1.20 is the...
YAMAMOTO: Um hum...
WHITACRE: uh, less than truckload price.
VETTER: Uhm. Okay so (ui).
WHITACRE: $1.20 a pound.
VETTER: Minimum.
UNKNOWN MALE: (ui)
YUN: Absolute minimum.
MIMOTO: Delivered truckload price.
YAMAMOTO: (ui).
MIMOTO: But anyway.
YAMAMOTO: Yes.
MIMOTO: That's it. For-for Canada, 1.45.
WHITACRE: I gave you the price what it is today, this is what we ought to push for.
I mean it's 3.15, 3.20 right now.
MIMOTO: Uhm.
WHITACRE: I think to go to 3.55 is a little heavy right now...
MIMOTO: From now.
WHITACRE: in my opinion.
MIMOTO: From now.
WHITACRE: Right. From tomorrow, from tomorrow.
MIMOTO: Oh.
WHITACRE: It's already nighttime in Canada.
YAMAMOTO: (Laughs).
CHAUDRET: Uh, not on the West Coast.
MIMOTO: U.S.A.
YAMAMOTO: (ui).
MIMOTO: U.S.A.
WHITACRE: (ui).
YAMAMOTO: Yeah.
WHITACRE: U.S.A.'d be the same story.
MIMOTO: (Clears throat).
WHITACRE: Well instead of pinpointin' a lot of examples, why don't we?... Well like
I told you, we made some mistakes, too, in U.S.A. 3, uh-uh, and we
took care of it. The guy that was doin' that. U.S.A., I think we ought
to go back, you know our target was a $1.20. We ought to get it back
on target.
WILSON: How far below are ya?
WHITACRE: At least 10 cents.
WILSON: Then, I wouldn't go to a $1.20.
VETTER: No, uh, uh, I think that's a little bit, uh, you were mentioning for Europe,
I think.
WHITACRE: Well this is a $1.16 right there in Canada.
VETTER: Yeah. Maybe...
WHITACRE: But...
VETTER: we should have Canada about, uh...
WHITACRE: (ui).
VETTER: 1.15, 1.16. At the same price in the States and Canada. And going
back to 1.20, 10 cents up.
WHITACRE: Delivered price, full truckload.
VETTER: 1.16.
WHITACRE: 1.16, you agree?
WILSON: A $1.16.
VETTER: A $1.16...
MIMOTO: A $1.16 (laughs) huh?
WHITACRE: Full truckload, a $1.16.
VETTER: $1.16.
WHITACRE: Which is the correspondence, same thing in Canadian...
MIMOTO: Right.
WHITACRE: price.
VETTER: Then we are at, then we are at equal...
MIMOTO: A $1.16. (ui).
WHITACRE: (ui).
MIMOTO: (ui).
WHITACRE: Delivered.
MIMOTO: Everyone? Delivered?
WHITACRE: Yeah.
VETTER: Yes, delivered.
YAMAMOTO: Too big number. I...
MIMOTO: Full truckload?
VETTER: Full truckload.
MIMOTO: Absolute, absolute...
WHITACRE: Effective tomorrow.
MIMOTO: minimum.
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