Canada slaps 276% Tariff on Foreign Drywall
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They don't apply to imports but do if domestic. Read the link posted.
Canada’s cement industry is crumbling
we can not compete with Asia for cheap labour
we have standards that they do not have to meet no how
Your idea will wind us up like Venezuela
"IMF Sees Venezuela Inflation Rocketing to 720 Percent in 2016"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...la-inflation-rocketing-to-720-percent-in-2016
we have standards that they do not have to meet no how
Your idea will wind us up like Venezuela
"IMF Sees Venezuela Inflation Rocketing to 720 Percent in 2016"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...la-inflation-rocketing-to-720-percent-in-2016
see it was true
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCmuATH2yzo
doh!!!
like making a picture to get my point across?
hmmmm...
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Ah, that's a problem.
I can see a few solutions.
1. Let the Canadian cement industry die. One problem with that is efficiency-wise is that it is even less efficient to then have to import cement from the US than to produce it locally.
2. Raise tariffs on US cement. One problem with efficiency-wise that is the risk of people in Western Canada buying cement from Eastern Canada or vice versa when without tariffs they could buy it from just across the border much nearer-by.
3. Give foreign states an option. We exclude foreigncement from the Canadian market but allow foreigncement-manufacturers to avoid the tariff by agreeing to pay a higher carbon tax to their government and so obtain a tariff-free status from the Canadian embassy.
Few businesses on other continents would be interested in that option, but some businesses in the US might. If Canada can produce all of its own cement, few if any businesses in the US would choose to pay a higher carbon tax just to access the Canadian market. However, should Canada experience severe shortages resulting in extremely expensive cement, then some US businesses that choose to specialise in exportation to Canada might voluntarily choose to pay a higher carbon tax to the US government so as to obtain free access to the Canadian market. That way we still have free trade with the US on an equal footing.
Just ideas.
Or ditch cement from the "carbon tax formula". If BC didn't import 2/3 of their cement they'd walk all over AB as carbon emitters.
A union that represents workers in Canadian drywall factories is telling the prime minister a decision that could help the construction business might cost its members their jobs.
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers have written Justin Trudeau asking that cabinet reject a trade tribunal's recommendation to relax anti-dumping duties that were imposed on imported U.S. drywall.
Earlier this month, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal found that American-made drywall dumped at less than normal prices into Western Canada over the past few years has hurt the Canadian industry.
The ruling called for replacing duties of up to 276 per cent that Canada imposed last year with permanent variable duties on any imports that fall below a floor price.
But the union says a recommendation that final duties be temporarily eliminated for a six-month period would hurt workers at gypsum board plants in Calgary and Winnipeg if the government approves the idea.
The union tells Trudeau that when preliminary duties were introduced, its members were rehired for a full shift at Calgary and an additional shift was introduced at Winnipeg.
"While your government has not accepted the tribunal's recommendations, the pessimism and expectation of continued unabated dumping have generated has already had an adverse impact on our members," says the letter to Trudeau, signed by Rob Lauzon, the union's assistant director of industrial sector operations.
The Western Canada Alliance of Wall and Ceiling Contractors applauded the tribunal's conclusion that the duties hurt consumers, and it called for a longer period than six months for the temporary elimination of final duties so that builders could fulfil their fixed-price contracts.
The duties were imposed after a dumping complaint by French-owned CertainTeed Gypsum Canada, the last drywall manufacturer in Western Canada with plants in Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg, and at two gypsum quarries, one in B.C. and one in Manitoba.
Fort McMurray mayor Melissa Blake said people who lost their homes in last year's devastating wildfire would suffer with a couple of thousand extra dollars in costs because of the drywall duties. Blake called for the federal government to offer grants to offset the impact of the duties.
The letter from the boilermakers' union says it supports duty relief for Fort McMurray, but that no Canadian worker should lose his or her livelihood to unfairly traded imports.
"There are no other good Canadian middle class jobs available for our members," the letter states.
Union asks Trudeau to halt push for relaxed anti-dumping duties on U.S. drywall | Metro Calgary
The International Brotherhood of Boilermakers have written Justin Trudeau asking that cabinet reject a trade tribunal's recommendation to relax anti-dumping duties that were imposed on imported U.S. drywall.
Earlier this month, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal found that American-made drywall dumped at less than normal prices into Western Canada over the past few years has hurt the Canadian industry.
The ruling called for replacing duties of up to 276 per cent that Canada imposed last year with permanent variable duties on any imports that fall below a floor price.
But the union says a recommendation that final duties be temporarily eliminated for a six-month period would hurt workers at gypsum board plants in Calgary and Winnipeg if the government approves the idea.
The union tells Trudeau that when preliminary duties were introduced, its members were rehired for a full shift at Calgary and an additional shift was introduced at Winnipeg.
"While your government has not accepted the tribunal's recommendations, the pessimism and expectation of continued unabated dumping have generated has already had an adverse impact on our members," says the letter to Trudeau, signed by Rob Lauzon, the union's assistant director of industrial sector operations.
The Western Canada Alliance of Wall and Ceiling Contractors applauded the tribunal's conclusion that the duties hurt consumers, and it called for a longer period than six months for the temporary elimination of final duties so that builders could fulfil their fixed-price contracts.
The duties were imposed after a dumping complaint by French-owned CertainTeed Gypsum Canada, the last drywall manufacturer in Western Canada with plants in Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg, and at two gypsum quarries, one in B.C. and one in Manitoba.
Fort McMurray mayor Melissa Blake said people who lost their homes in last year's devastating wildfire would suffer with a couple of thousand extra dollars in costs because of the drywall duties. Blake called for the federal government to offer grants to offset the impact of the duties.
The letter from the boilermakers' union says it supports duty relief for Fort McMurray, but that no Canadian worker should lose his or her livelihood to unfairly traded imports.
"There are no other good Canadian middle class jobs available for our members," the letter states.
Union asks Trudeau to halt push for relaxed anti-dumping duties on U.S. drywall | Metro Calgary