2019 Is The Year Farmers Will Feel The Pain From Trump's Trade Wars - Forbes

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6. Newsprint is in a similar situation

My parents subscribed to a newspaper in Eastern Washington for decades. The straw that broke the camel's back and caused them to cancel their subscription (they're still getting letters asking them to reconsider) was when their new publisher sent out a letter to their customers informing them that thanks to "tariffs and trade pressures" the price of newsprint rolls had doubled since the start of 2017.

Which is probably true, but in this case it's a sick joke: the Cowles family, who also owns the newspaper in question, has owned Inland Empire Paper Co. since the 1930s. They own a paper mill, a recycling mill, forestland to grow the few trees they need to make paper (all recycled paper has at least a small amount of virgin fiber in it; if you don't add some new fiber to the pot, the paper will come apart while you're trying to print on it), a truck fleet...