Madison Paper Industries has joined a Minnesota-based papermaker in a formal complaint against a Nova Scotia paper mill that has received Canadian subsidies.
The Morning Sentinel reported that Fair Paper Imports, a group that also represents Verso Corp.’s Duluth Mill in Duluth, Minn., filed the petition with the U.S. International Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce. The petition is seeking higher import duties for special publishing paper produced by Port Hawkesbury Paper in Nova Scotia.
The two paper makers allege that a $125 million subsidy from Nova Scotia’s provincial government used to restart the Port Hawkesbury mill in 2012 allowed the mill to produce cheaper supercalendered paper, putting American papermakers at a disadvantage.
Source:Â Morning Sentinel
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