US lumber tariiffs backfire?

[Thrawn]

Apparently it's forced Canadian lumber companies to become even MORE efficient.

"U.S. tariff on Canadian lumber 'catalyst for dramatic change'
Last Updated Wed, 18 Dec 2002 6:16:07

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Some U.S. lumber producers are admitting the hefty tariffs imposed on the Canadian industry have backfired.

The U.S. Commerce Department imposed a 27 per cent tariff on exports of homebuilding wood earlier this year. But an official with a key American lobby group says instead of reducing the amount of Canadian wood in the U.S. market, the opposite has happened. "

http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/17/lumber021217

I wonder if the same thing will happen with wheat.

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by Thrawn
Apparently it's forced Canadian lumber companies to become even MORE efficient.

So, again, WE had to bring the best out of your industry? I don't see what the surprise is.

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
So, again, WE had to bring the best out of your industry? I don't see what the surprise is.

And it took Canadians engineers to put a man on the moon.

[GRUNHERZ]

Originally posted by Thrawn
And it took Canadians engineers to put a man on the moon.

Von Braun was Canadian?

[Wotan]

I think he was Russian, well he could have been if he wanted to, actually he was before but gave it up.

[whgates3]

actually US mills are a lot more efficient than canadian. they have to be to compete with subsidised canadian industry (US lumber is subsidised too, but not nearly as much).  canadian mill are just adopting some US practices

[midnight Target]

Actually Canadian mills have been more efficient for a while, mainly due to the high degree of automation required.

Why all the automation?




No people.

[Swoop]

Oh ferchristsakes will you damn yanks just declare Canada the latest refuse of Osama and get the damn invasion over with please.

[miko2d]

midnight Target: Why all the automation?
No people.

 We should bus people from mexico to the canadian border and flood them with illegal mexican workers!
 We could catch mexicans trying to cross the border and offer them a choice - send them back or give them $300, warm clothes and release them into Canada!

 miko

[whgates3]

efficient is apparently too vauge a term.
US mills effectively use a higher percentage of incoming timber (more product, less waste)

[capt. apathy]

the timber industry has become alot more efficient lately.
when I was a kid you would always see the steel 'teepee'  outside the mills. (basicly a big steel cone with a mesh top, where they burn all the bark,dust and other waste wood)

these are now a thing of the past.  just about everything is used and what waste there is if used as 'hog fuel' to create energy