Canadian lumber industry lashes out at new U.S. tariff
November 1, 2001 1:11 PM Subscribe
Canadian lumber industry lashes out at new U.S. tariff The Canadian lumber industry expressed its frustration and disapproval Wednesday at a U.S. announcement to impose an extra anti-dumping duty of 12.57 per cent on Canadian softwood lumber exports. Once again "free-trade" screws Canadians
Read this for some background information.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/softwood_lumber.html
This trade dispute has been going on for more than 20 years.
Every time the US imposes dutys and tarrifs the WTO has sided with Canada because the Americans have been wrong.
This process takes time. Since the US imposed a countervailing duty earlier this year thousands of jobs have been affected, billions of dollars lost, and companies have gone out of business.
No, the end does not justify the means.
posted by futureproof at 1:53 PM on November 1, 2001
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/softwood_lumber.html
This trade dispute has been going on for more than 20 years.
Every time the US imposes dutys and tarrifs the WTO has sided with Canada because the Americans have been wrong.
This process takes time. Since the US imposed a countervailing duty earlier this year thousands of jobs have been affected, billions of dollars lost, and companies have gone out of business.
No, the end does not justify the means.
posted by futureproof at 1:53 PM on November 1, 2001
I live in the Northwest, a county once called 'the timber capital of the world'; thirty years ago a log truck load would be three to five logs...now, a load is thirty to fifty
"logs". Quit being obsessed with trade and SAVE YOUR FORESTS before its too late.
posted by Mack Twain at 2:16 PM on November 1, 2001
"logs". Quit being obsessed with trade and SAVE YOUR FORESTS before its too late.
posted by Mack Twain at 2:16 PM on November 1, 2001
Jimmy Carter wrote an editorial about this for the NY Times last year. He's owns timber land, like thousands of individuals do in the Deep South. Cheap Canadian imports threatened to make their millions of acres (which are not about to be threatened) worth millions less. Here's another article with Jimmy's side of the story.
posted by raysmj at 6:37 PM on November 1, 2001
posted by raysmj at 6:37 PM on November 1, 2001
Grrr.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:32 PM on November 1, 2001
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:32 PM on November 1, 2001
Sorry. Brain fart.
I was going to go into a long, ranting screed about American's tendency to blame the rest of the world for the problems that America itself frequently creates, yadda yadda. I edited it down to Grrr.
Not aimed at you, raysmj.
My hometown, in the far North of British Columbia is primarily (well, entirely) a lumber town, for better or worse (more worse), and many people have been hurt badly by all of this.
Of course I haven't lived there in years and years, and I loathe the logging industry on principle (my god you have to see the vast, lunarlandscape clear-cuts all over BC to realize what a good job of 'stewardship' the logging companies are doing), but still, it rankles.
Mack's right. Save the forests, before it's too goddamned late.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:47 AM on November 2, 2001
I was going to go into a long, ranting screed about American's tendency to blame the rest of the world for the problems that America itself frequently creates, yadda yadda. I edited it down to Grrr.
Not aimed at you, raysmj.
My hometown, in the far North of British Columbia is primarily (well, entirely) a lumber town, for better or worse (more worse), and many people have been hurt badly by all of this.
Of course I haven't lived there in years and years, and I loathe the logging industry on principle (my god you have to see the vast, lunarlandscape clear-cuts all over BC to realize what a good job of 'stewardship' the logging companies are doing), but still, it rankles.
Mack's right. Save the forests, before it's too goddamned late.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:47 AM on November 2, 2001
obviously protectionism motivated by crass commercial self-interest
but even more:
Since the US imposed a countervailing duty earlier this year thousands of jobs have been affected, billions of dollars lost, and companies have gone out of business.
No, the end does not justify the means.
Damn straight. How high is the American gov't going to force prices for the dubious goal of "saving forests"?
posted by phartizan at 5:57 AM on November 2, 2001
but even more:
Since the US imposed a countervailing duty earlier this year thousands of jobs have been affected, billions of dollars lost, and companies have gone out of business.
No, the end does not justify the means.
Damn straight. How high is the American gov't going to force prices for the dubious goal of "saving forests"?
posted by phartizan at 5:57 AM on November 2, 2001
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The ends justify the means.
posted by phatboy at 1:30 PM on November 1, 2001