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To: Doug Soon who wrote (12187)	11/30/2001 9:37:37 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

There is much support in the US from the consumer side, many states Governors and including Alan Greenspan on this interruption of free market flows That's certainly the case. But the steel industry received some reprieves and so did the semi-conductor industry when faced with dumping of a commodity on our markets. Because let's face some facts here... those involved in the US logging industry live in homes too. And they go to Home Depot too.. But they won't be going there if they don't have their jobs. And the same argument you can make with regard to timber, can be made with any other national resource which can be effectively "given nearly free of charge" to their favored industries, including mineral rights, oil rights, fishing rights... etc. Put all of those US industries out of business by permitting other nations to subsidize their own industries, and we'll have even more people out of work. The answer is going to lie in either Canada raising their stumppage fees, or the US lowering theirs. I certainly don't see US timber companies being sold to Canadian companies as being an option. Hawk