Add Newsprint to the Growing List of U.S.-Canada Trade Disputes
- U.S. firm alleges Canada newsprint makers unfairly subsidized
- Another dispute will add more uncertainty to market, ERA says
An employee loads a roll of Norpac newsprint at the Los Angeles Times Olympic Press facility in Los Angeles on Oct. 16, 2013.
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There’s a new front in the Canada-U.S. trade war over trees: newsprint.
A Washington state paper maker is the U.S. government to impose duties on Canadian imports of uncoated groundwood paper, used in everything from newsprint to book publishing. North Pacific Paper Co., or Norpac, alleges Canadian imports are subsidized and are increasingly taking market share from domestic producers, according to documents filed Aug. 9 with the International Trade Administration.