LINK ABOVE TO “WHITE PAPER ON TARIFFS WITH REGARD TO CANADIAN AND UNITED STATES LUMBER MARKETS.
THIS WHITE PAPER –ENTITLED “THE LAST TARIFFS STANDING” — WAS WRITTEN BY ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS “TIMBER CONSULTANT” JOHN QUIDACHAY (US FOREST SERVICE RETIRED) AND HISTORIAN WARD MILLER.
JOHN QUIDACHAY OFFERS US THIS OVERVIEW ON THE “WHITE PAPER”:
My aim was to research the tariffs on lumber and timber as objectively as possible. I think for our membership, the paper is mainly for readers to understand the complexities of the tariffs and how all the other policy references play into the bigger picture.
The tariffs imposed on Canadian lumber did not really give us any clear advantage. The policy references cited in the paper gave me the sense that there are other pollical forces at play, certainly other trade agreements and the tariff act of 1930 which was supposed to protect the US from dumping large amount of lumber in the lower 48 and or using countervailing duties.
Bottom line is the tariffs have gone back to pre-executive order on Canadian lumber entering the US. This was a difficult paper to produce given all the other long-time laws and regulations that still apply. While the administration’s efforts were well intentioned to boost lumber manufacturing in the US, there were other policy issues that had to be considered. “
ASSOCIATED CALIFORNIA LOGGERS WILL DISTRIBUTE THIS WHITE PAPER AND WILL KEEP A COPY ON FILE AT THE ACL OFFICE FOR FUTURE USE. THIS DOCUMENT WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION IN OUR “GRASSROOTS LOBBYING PACKAGE” WHEN OUR ACL DELEGATION — INCLUDING JOHN QUIDACHAY — GOES TO WASHINGTON DC FOR ITS THE ANNUAL FLY IN LATER THIS YEAR.