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To: E. Charters who wrote (17168)	8/14/2005 10:55:55 PM
From: philv	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18308

The US wants what it wants from Canada, like all the oil, gas, electricity, and any other commodity they cannot produce. I cannot figure out why this historical preoccupation with limiting lumber imports persists. It can't be a matter of jobs, because almost all US manufacturing has already been exported to Asia. Yet the pressure on lumber and cattle continues. Maybe these groups have better lobbyists, or maybe it is just a matter of American corporate profits, which really has nothing at all to do with jobs. The hypocrisy in regards to lumber can't be better illustrated than the fact that raw logs are not subject to their tariffs, only the cut lumber. Raw logs good. 2 X 4s bad. If trade agreements were not in place, I suppose it would be up to each country to assess tariffs. But that is not the case here.