October 24, 2012
U.S. makes WTO complaint over N.S. subsidies
U.S. trade officials have argued to the World Trade Organization that subsidies to a Canadian paper mill should end.
Reuters reported that a U.S. trade official made that plea to the WTO's subsidies committee, arguing that tax breaks, grants, energy cost reductions and timber subsidies for the Port Hawkesbury mill in Nova Scotia could be challenged under the trade organization's rules.
U.S. trade officials said earlier this month that they would begin investigating the subsidies that industry observers in Maine have said could be unfair to mills like UPM's Madison mill, which produces the same type of supercalendered paper as the Canadian mill.
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