Nearly six dozen Congress members – 39 in the House, 32 in the Senate – have signed onto legislation that aims to temporarily suspend, if not halt altogether, preliminary import tariffs that the Trump administration recently placed on Canadian newsprint.
“This is much more than a mere financial setback for one industry,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. “For many of our small town and rural newspapers, these tariffs, if finalized, would harm the dissemination of information about our communities, our government and the world around us.”
The Commerce Department levied the initial tariffs in January and then imposed a second round in March after finding that some imports of Canadian uncoated groundwood paper used in newsprint were being sold at below-market rates in the United States.
Source: USA Today
