Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Our first question today comes from Amit Daryanani. You may ask your question. He is with RBC Capital Markets.
Amit Daryanani - RBC Capital Markets
Thanks. Good morning guys.
Timothy Tevens
Good morning.
Karen Howard
Good morning.
Amit Daryanani - RBC Capital Markets
Just a quick question. I may have missed this, I am sorry. The $5.2 million net loss in Univeyor, how much of that was just write-offs and how much of that was just operating losses within the company or whether the division. Secondly, looks likes this is going through to Q2 at least, so have you ever explored maybe putting this as a discontinued operation?
Timothy Tevens
Yeah, let me take the first question. This $5.2 million is a combination of all of that, I haven’t broken it all between all the pieces, somewhere accounts receivable write-off, somewhere old projects that we're still, we're wrapping up if you will and getting rid off and somewhere a couple of new projects that we had some over run then as well and the total was 5.2. Relative to discontinued ops, we don't have a contract or are not firmed up yet as to who we are going to negotiate with to sell this asset, so we are not able to account for the discontinued ops, it would have been a lot easier and you're absolutely right just to display it that way but we tried to give you a sense of what it would look like with out it. Hopefully, we were successful in doing that.
Amit Daryanani - RBC Capital Markets
No, I mean the color you guys give around definitely helps us get to what the business looks like x or I just feel discontinued would be a simpler way to go about it. I guess the second thing I just had was, (inaudible) you guys were talking about price increases in the sense that these surcharges are sticking pretty well. Is the sense that the price increases are sticking a lot better in North America and Europe versus the rest of international market, so is that across the board we are able to pass them on.
Timothy Tevens
Well, I think the surcharges are predominantly and steel-based products, which is our rigging products, and those are predominantly here in North America, especially the ones that Derwin referenced, the zero to 29% adders if you will. I would say that, so specially North America and they are sticking. We’ve done this in the past, we started this in 2004 when we say steels begin to crazy and have had success in passing that worldwide growth in steel prices and to the channel partners and telling them to pass it on as well. So I think it's probably mostly North American, only because of the type of products we sell and where we sell it.
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