To: Don Lloyd who wrote (8283 ) 9/6/2001 3:49:06 AM From: marcos Respond to 'Canadian resource exporters can offer their products to the US ' - no, actually we cannot, and that's the point ... the 'Commerce' department of the US fedgov has decided to stand between willing buyers and willing sellers to the tune of nineteen point three per cent If Canada decides to either sell its products elsewhere ' - we do, and always have, actually ... however the US has always been and remains our major market ... Japan was quite significant for many years but has reduced lumber imports for obvious reasons ... but we sell all overor cut back production in an attempt to make the US see common sense ' - well, some of us despair of the likelihood of seeing the latter happen in our lifetimes, but the former, the cutting back of production, has already happened - half of this province is unemployed right now, this may not make the news down there but it sure does here .... the nineteen point three per cent is insurmountable until the consumer is forced to pay it by the artificial cranking of prices, because there simply isn't that much profit margin in the business, if there was we would all be rich long ago
