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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (17459)	3/27/2002 10:57:44 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Ok. We have dissected US-2-EU steel row.

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (17459)	3/27/2002 11:14:37 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Northern lumber cannot compete. Then they call what's called forestry in Canada, the US and Sweden, in Brazil is called: Destroying the forests. According to Swedish expert Peter Weer Bugge a pulp mill prducing 500.000 tonnes a year requires 80.000 Ha in Brazil. A similar mill needs 500.00 Ha in Scandinavia, and a 1.6 million in British Columbia. This is because the trees most suitable for paper —pinus and Eucalliptus— grow so much faster in the South than elsewhere. South Nov. 1989. All that thing should be being made here. But we know why it's not, don't we? “Europe is developing a peculiar sort of post-industrial economy. As manufacturing industry declines in importance in rich countries, production is supposed to switch to profitable services. Instead, the fastest increases in production in Western Europe this decade have been in heavily subsidised farming. According to the World Bank, agricultural production in most European countries grew by more than 3% a year from 1980 to 1985—led by Holland (7.8%), Denmark (5.1%) and West Germany (4%). Services grew by barely 2% a year. In little over a decade, the EC’s sugar regime has turned the community from a major net sugar importer to the world’s largest exporter. Britain has shared in this unexpected trend, and seen agriculture-led growth for the first time since the early eighteen century.” The Economist, Oct. 3, 1987