Canadian newsprint tariffs start to take a toll on U.S. newspaper industry
by Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2018
3 minutes
Little noticed amid the trade war discussion, tariffs levied by the Trump administration on the Canadian paper used to make newsprint are starting to take a toll on U.S. newspapers and printers.
In the last few months, the Commerce Department has put in place two sets of duties on producers and exporters of uncoated groundwood paper from Canada. The first, in January, ranged from 4.42 percent to 9.93 percent of the wholesale price after a preliminary determination that suppliers had received
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