The Commodity Levies (Pipfruit) Order 1996 The levy rate for the levy year ended 31 October 1999 is 2.0 cents per tray carton equivalent (tce) of pipfruit, plus G.S.T., as passed at PGNZI's annual general meeting on 10 September 1998. A tce equals 18.8 kg of fruit. There is a minimum levy payable of $150.00 plus G.S.T. and a maximum levy payable of $2,000.00 plus G.S.T. The levy is calculated on a grower's total production of pipfruit produced in the 1997/98 year (1 November 1997 to 31 October 1998). The levy is payable by pipfruit growers who produced 1000 tces or more of apples and/or European pears in the 199798 season. A request for production information will be sent to growers in October and an invoice, based on the information supplied, will be sent in February 1999. For further information please contact Paul Browne, PGNZI, P.O. Box 2175, Wellington. Telephone: (04) 472 4730. Facsimile: (04) 494 9989.