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AF&PA Raises Concerns About Impact of Canadian Tariffs on North American Supply Chains

AF&PA has supported the Administration’s strong actions to defend U.S. manufacturers from unfair trade practices and strengthen domestic production. However, broad tariffs on Canadian inputs could create real disruptions and uncertainty for industries like ours, which depend on integrated North American supply chains to make pulp, paper, packaging and tissue products. Those same supply chains also support hundreds of thousands of jobs in communities across the United States.

At a time when our industry is competing against unfair global trade practices, non-market economies and evidence of potential excess capacity from places like China, it is important for the United States to continue to strengthen North American competitiveness and preserve the supply-chain certainty companies need to make long-term investment decisions in U.S. mills, equipment and workers.

AF&PA Raises Concerns About Impact of Canadian Tariffs on North American Supply Chains

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