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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (289)	11/27/2001 1:38:21 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

'There is one thing you should clearly understand. We, as Canadians, believe these types of investigations by any government should be fair and unbiased. The process we find ourselves in is anything but fair. These reviews are political, biased, capricious, expensive and time consuming. They are devised to only protect the U.S. producers' interests. There is not one mention of U.S. consumers' interests in their law. And there is not any legal way to point out the imperfections in their system. Alan Greenspan, the respected and influential Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, has waded into the debate in support of free trade in softwood lumber. Speaking before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Greenspan said that U.S. laws "on countervailing duties and the like are actually counterproductive to our own interests." "The U.S. timber industry is simply trying to erect trade barriers against its northern competitors," Greenspan said. President Bush and American lawmakers should take that message to heart. Canada has first-class legal teams - nine law firms in Washington, D.C. alone - working on our behalf. There is always an outside chance of a win, but as we have learned in the past, our best chance comes on appeal to NAFTA panels and the World Trade Organisation. However, this will take an incredibly long time, anywhere from three to five years. Meanwhile, during that period, the Canadian industry will be paying hundreds of millions of dollars in duties to the U.S. Treasury. In turn, the U.S. Treasury will pass them on to the U.S. lumber producers who filed the petition. You heard it right. It's the most unfair, ludicrous outcome imaginable. But that's the position Canada finds itself in ' ...end quote ... above typed in from the Summer 2001 issue of trucklogger, a magazine put out by the TLA here in BC ... they have a website - truckloggers.com ... that piece written by Robert S Plecas