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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (42218)	11/29/2005 11:05:29 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

The claim that Canada subsidizes our lumber industry via low stumpage rates is ridiculous. Low stumpage rates are low stumpage rates and nothing more. There are many ways of subsidizing industries and many reasons. More clever ones than that have been thought of. The Chinese, with their use of two currencies, one internally with prices kept high in it to discourage domestic consumption and one foreign trade with a good exchange rate making Chinese goods cheap to foreigners, is even more clever. The Japanese have found many ways to subsidize their postage-stamp-size farms, citing the need for national food independence. At least that part is true. US rice growers would wipe then out in a month on a level field. My, how we do howl when it is our ox being gored! Perhaps we should back up to, say, 1935 trade war tariffs. Or would the Canadian unemployment rate go out of sight? Would you complain if I bought gas on the Canadian side of the border 10 cents cheaper to travel to Vegas that the Canadian government was subsidizing U.S. tourism. A gas tank full? Do as you wish. If you intend to haul a gas tanker behind you, our customs gets its due. Not to mention the fact the U.S. Department of Commerce investigated and concluded no duty on Canadian lumber was justified. Link? If Canada is so justified, why have we not heard from the WTO?