No bans here, not necessary, we had a few dubya-thread types wander by early on, but nobody responded to them so they went away, feeling unrewarded presumably
By holding lumber back we would gain nothing, they would just import more from elsewhere ... in fact this happened to considerable degree, lumber coming in from New Zealand and Siberia and Chile, quite a few other places as well, since they hit us with the 27% in the fall of 2001 .... the US produces roughly two thirds of its lumber consumption, they have to get the other third from somewhere, but that's not too hard to do if they just pay up and try not to screw their suppliers quite so much as they do us
The one way we have of getting noticed - say f.y. and your Commerzwaffe, if you want our oil you take the lumber, if you want a tariff on one, an identical penalty gets surcharged on the other, and it comes out of your pockets this time, amigos, not ours ... station mounties in redcoat at the border valves, and give 'em a deadline to decide, do ya want free trade or doncha .... noon tomorrow, would be my suggestion
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