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Trump's tariff on Canadian newsprint is killing US newspapers, Republicans warn
Washington Examiner ^ | 06/08/2018 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 06/08/2018 9:17:48 AM PDT by DFG

A dozen House lawmakers have introduced legislation to remove President Trump's tariffs on Canadian newsprint so a study can be done on how much those tariffs are crushing local newspapers around the country.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., is a response to the 22 percent tariff that the Trump administration has imposed on some Canadian newsprint since the beginning of this year. Noem said that tariff has led to rising costs for local newspapers, and are a threat to their survival.

"In recent years, new tariffs on Canadian newsprint have increased paper prices by 20 to 30 percent," Noem said in a statement. "That's significant. A paper that services around 20,000 customers, for instance, could see paper costs rise by about a quarter-million dollars annually, threatening the newspaper's survival."

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TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: canada; fake; fakenews; gope; hoax; kristinoem; mediawingofthednc; newsprint; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; tariff; trump; trumptrade; trumpwinsagain; win; winning
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To: DFG

Tariffs are killing newsprint just like tariffs killed slide rules.


21 posted on 06/08/2018 9:25:12 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: DFG

Too bad, so sad.

Pass me a beer.

5.56mm


22 posted on 06/08/2018 9:25:12 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: DFG

Just have more reporters have affairs with sources in exchange for security news leaks. That will keep costs down to compensate for rising newsprint cost.


23 posted on 06/08/2018 9:25:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: DFG

Ya think he doesn’t know that? tee hee


24 posted on 06/08/2018 9:26:18 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: DFG

Trees are happy. Seriously, many states do not apply sales tax to newspapers. Assuming that newsprint does not make up more than 1/3rd the cost of the newspaper, it is just the same as if a state with a 7.5% sales tax applied it to newspapers. States do that kind of expansion all the time. There was no shortage of newspapers lauding expansion of sales tax to, say, auto repair shops when it was applied to labor as well as parts, making a similar cost increase.


25 posted on 06/08/2018 9:26:55 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: MrEdd

and it’s clear we are out of trees in the US


26 posted on 06/08/2018 9:27:39 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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To: DFG

[Trump’s tariff on Canadian newsprint is killing US newspapers]

UNBELIEVABLE! Local newspapers were going down the tube long before PRESIDENT TRUMP announced a tariff on Canadian newsprint. Our hometown newspaper is only 5 pages. 10 years ago it had several editions.

Blame higher subscription prices and advertising fees, as well as, LIBERAL CONTENT.


27 posted on 06/08/2018 9:27:54 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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To: DFG

Having once been a paper sales man and in the forest products industry for 35 years - and speaking on raw material costs not the state of media - what killed the US newsprint industry was knee jerk environmentalism that prevented our paper industry from modernizing and growing to compete against countries that had little or no environmental standards. This is why Canada has newsprint to sell and we do not.


28 posted on 06/08/2018 9:29:08 AM PDT by llevrok (Established 1950.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The papers will just charge the Rats a little more to publish fawning articles for them.


29 posted on 06/08/2018 9:29:19 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Grampa Dave

Why don’t these newspapers use RECYCLED paper?

Gee, do you think a REPORTER will ask them??


30 posted on 06/08/2018 9:29:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DFG

Awwwww! my heart bleeds for the radical leftists in charge of newspapers.


31 posted on 06/08/2018 9:30:06 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: DFG

Is that what you call A two-fer?


32 posted on 06/08/2018 9:30:15 AM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: DFG

I thought U.S. newspapers had killed themselves.


33 posted on 06/08/2018 9:30:25 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: llevrok

Kudos for your recognition of the fact that Canada has long delivered snotty lectures to us about environmentalism while continuing to pollute their own country at-will.


34 posted on 06/08/2018 9:30:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: arthurus
Long term, I don't think this is such a good idea . . . but it should be an incentive for Baby Pierre to negotiate a bilateral agreement to remove tariffs between the USA and Canada.

Baby Pierre is being intransigent and gambling that Canada's failure to negotiate will cost Trump big time in the mid terms. Looks like he got bit first with the massive loss of seats for his party in the Ontario provincial elections recently. Ontario accounts for almost 40% of the Canadian electorate and doesn't bode well for Baby Pierre continuting in office.

35 posted on 06/08/2018 9:31:08 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: DFG

Cowgrrl Kristi needs to heed the tea leaves and move towards online info

Newspapers dyin’ be good


36 posted on 06/08/2018 9:32:11 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: DFG

No, they did that pretty much on their own.


37 posted on 06/08/2018 9:32:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=600>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: DFG

All those that purchase a freaking newspaper raise their hand...

bueller?

bueller?

Perhaps the Timber Pulp industry should find better more advanced things to do with their products...


38 posted on 06/08/2018 9:32:41 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: DFG
Our local newspaper, 'The Macomb Daily' is nothing but leftist fishwrap anyway. Good riddance.
39 posted on 06/08/2018 9:32:47 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: econjack

I don’t know what I’ll line my pigeon cages with when there are no more newspapers.


40 posted on 06/08/2018 9:33:15 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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