marcos,
I have another comment on the US global economic war: on the Canadian timber front, "excess" raw logs can be imported by American mills, duty and tarrif free(excess logs are defined as those logs not needed by operating mills).....The more B.C. mills that go out of business and the more mill towns that permanently shut down on the wet coast, the more "excess" logs there will available for export. Hell, if the duties and tarrifs shut down all the B.C. mills, every log in B.C. will become classified as "excess". IMO, the B.C. government needs to immediately put an offsetting tax, tarrif, duty or whatever you want to call it, on raw logs heading for the US so that they cannot compete with "value added" timber for export, and then change the law-period. The folks in Washington DC won't listen to reason, so maybe what is needed is for some of those US mills and mill towns getting fat on cheap, plentiful B.C. raw logs, to share some of the pain? Maybe the American politicians only listen to their own constituents? |
