Many Maine sawmill owners are not cheering Trumps lumber tariff

[jpak]

http://bangordailynews.com/2017/04/29/the-point/why-many-maine-sawmill-owners-are-not-cheering-trumps-lumber-tariff/

PORTLAND, Maine — The 3-mile haul into Maine from Fontaine Lumber’s Woburn, Quebec, mill just got a lot more expensive.

Each load of rough-cut and dried spruce and fir will get hit with a new 20 percent tariff at the end of Route 161, as the wood enters Coburn Gore and heads for finishing at the company’s Maine mill in Stratton. About half of the Stratton mill’s supply of rough-cut wood comes across the border.

The rest is dried and milled in Maine.

“For us, it’s not good news,” Nicolas Fontaine, president of Fontaine Lumber and Stratton Lumber, said.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again...

but then, maybe it's not so unintended. The bigger corporations seem to love to force smaller operations out of business, and use the legal system to do so. Very Trumpian.