In response to the Department of Commerce’s announcement today of preliminary antidumping duties on Canadian imports of uncoated groundwood paper – which includes newsprint used by tens of thousands of publishers and printers in the United States.
Today Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, introduced the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act of 2018.”
We are stunned that a single U.S. mill (NORPAC) has been able to manipulate the trade laws to their gain, while potentially wreaking financial havoc on newspapers and other commercial publishers across the country.
Chairman Pai circulated an Order repealing the 1975 ban on cross-ownership between a broadcast television or radio station and a newspaper in the same market during today’s House Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology FCC Oversight Hearing.