Congressman Who Opposed Tariff’s Celebrates His Own Tariff
Congressman Himes, who has been critical with the Trump Administration said in March that tariffs were “backward-looking,” and said other nations are moving in the opposite direction – toward free trade celebrated a tariff of his own. He issued this press release: The United States International Trade Commission overturned tariffs on Canadian newsprint. The tariffs, some of which were as high as 20 percent, drove up costs for newspapers across the country, especially affecting smaller and local papers without the budget cushion to absorb such a massive increase. The Commission found that imports of Canadian newsprint did not actually harm American producers. “These tariffs were putatively imposed to help American paper companies, many of whom had already switched from newsprint to cardboard production…