Paper Tariffs — Will Commerce Be Swayed?

Hardest hit will be West Coast printers, where up to 90 percent of the CFS market is supplied with Asian paper, according to John Maine, vice president of RISI, which publishes titles in the pulp and paper industry. Maine notes that Chinese and Indonesian suppliers shipped 360,000 tons of CFS to the United States in 2006, and believes that volume could drop off by 50,000 to 100,000 tons should the tariffs remain unchanged.