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To: marcos who wrote (350)	3/22/2002 5:24:38 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 1293

'The Portuguese, it is said, indeed, are better customers for our manufactures than the French, and should therefore be encouraged in preference to them. As they give us their custom, it is pretended, we should give them ours. The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire: for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his goods always where they are the cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind. By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted of beggaring all their neighbours. Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations, as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, has become the most fertile source of discord and animosity ... ' A. Smith, 1776, 'Unreasonableness of Restraints', Book Four of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

To: marcos who wrote (350)	3/22/2002 5:25:42 PM
From: Tommy Moore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

I don't think anyone is surprised that the US timber industry is not interested in a negotiated settlement. After all they currently have a hand full of aces. The fact that they're from different decks doesn't seem to bother the bureaucrats who leveled the duties. This is a huge windfall for large inefficient producers south of the line.. The fact that the local economy such as it is, will be devastated will not produce any tears south of the 49th, nor should it, after all who here cares about a logger in Montana who has lost his job. The issue surrounds fair trade in both directions, either we have it or we don't. You and I both know that the real subsidy enjoyed by our industry is the cheap loony or more accurately the high valued US buck. I would love to see the gloves come off regarding B.C. electricity rates charged to the states. Let them read their recycled newsprint by candlelight. When California starts to have brownouts let them know who to blame. Of course none of our rants are going to materialize, we after all depend on that giant consumption machine south of us far to much. I here Rick Doman talking about shutting down two mills immediately.(For those that don't know, Doman forest prods. is one of the big three operating on the coast. After operating for yrs in this "subsidized" enviroment they have managed to rack up a Billion bucks in debt.) I would not be surprised to see the pulp mills at Woodfibre and Port Alice shut down permanently as well. One thing for sure the coast is in for a lot of pain.