Newspapers are in trouble. People pretend they are getting the news on their phones, or they just don’t bother to read their local papers. Fewer people subscribe to papers. Trump, of course, hates the press and would like to see it go under.
In January, the cost of newsprint rose as the Trump administration imposed tariffs on imported Canadian newsprint. Struggling smaller papers cut the number of pages and laid off reporters and other staff to try to stay afloat.
Yesterday the U.S. International Trade Commission, a U.S. Government agency that reviews unfair trade practices, issued a statement that “a U.S.. industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of uncoated ground wood paper from Canada.”
In other words, the tariff was eliminated. Unfortunately, damage has already been done by an unjust Trump policy.
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