Oracle Copy command

Hi,
I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with a question/issue I have when using the copy command in SQLPlus. The scenario entails moving specific columns from a table in DB A to a new table in DB B (DB B is on a completely different server). When I use the copy from to create select command I am finding that the column sizes are being increased by a factor of 4. So in my source table I have a column which is VARCHAR2(15 CHAR), yet after the copy command is complete the target table has the same column as VARCHAR2(60 CHAR).
Does anyone know how I can get copy to keep the column sizes the same? i.e. VARCHAR2(15 CHAR) in source, VARCHAR2(15 CHAR) at target.
I have tried pre-creating the tables which the correct sizes and then using insert in the copy command, however it errors out when it thinks the size has been exceeded.
Thanks in advance

Hope this pastes ok:
Target System:
desc s_addr_per
Name Null Type
ROW_ID NOT NULL VARCHAR2(60 CHAR)
CREATED NOT NULL DATE
CREATED_BY NOT NULL VARCHAR2(60 CHAR)
LAST_UPD NOT NULL DATE
Source System:
desc siebel.s_addr_per
Name Null Type
ROW_ID NOT NULL VARCHAR2(15 CHAR)
CREATED NOT NULL DATE
CREATED_BY NOT NULL VARCHAR2(15 CHAR)
LAST_UPD NOT NULL DATE
Note : this is a only the first couple of columns in the table

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