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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North
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To: Elizabeth Andrews who wrote (2212)4/14/2002 10:52:42 PM
From: teevee  Read Replies (1) of 8273
 
Elizabeth,

I think you are missing the point. Are raw logs a commodity or not?

yes, raw logs are a commodity. So is dimension lumber.

Are they going to be priced as other commodities?

Raw logs and dimension lumber already are priced as commodities. You can even buy and sell dimension lumber futures.

This is the starting point. If Canada can't agree on that then there's a problem that will only go away when all BC mills are shut down due the countervailing tariffs. They are only going higher not lower.

Those surplus logs and dimension lumber from B.C. are produced under the same forestry system and laws that the American lumber lobby loves to hate. Why should logs be exempt? If the US won't apply tarrifs and duties to raw logs, B.C. should. It would only close a glaring loop hole in the existing laws. Whats good for the goose, is good for the gander, is it not? I think the real problem is that although the american home building consumer gains far more from competively priced lumber than the Yankee lumber barons who can't compete, the homebuilders do not have as strong a voice in Washington.

Is it a free trade zone or no?
Apparently not when yanks can't compete in the market place. Isolationist bully tactics will only do more harm than good.
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