Business Management - Government/Governmental

A preliminary determination on Jan. 9 by the U.S. Department of Commerce to impose countervailing duties (CVD) ranging from 4.43% to 9.93% has U.S. newspaper, book and commercial printers that buy imported Canadian uncoated groundwood paper seeing red. That's because it will deliver a severe blow to their bottom lines due to what amounts to an average countervailing duty of 6.53%.

The Secretary of Commerce announced an affirmative preliminary determination in the investigation of uncoated groundwood paper imports.

Few would deny that 2018 is shaping up to be a fraught and contentious year politically. But, it isn’t likely that political news of the headline-grabbing, “breaking” variety is going to have all that much to do with issues of primary concern to the printing industry. Those issues, nonetheless, are real, and the need for printers to understand and engage with them has seldom been more urgent.

The GPO has completed digitization of all historical issues of the Congressional Record dating to March 5, 1873.

Bryan Hall, president/CEO of Graphic Visual Solutions and the new chairman at Printing Industries of America, outlines key initiatives.

NPES President Thayer Long and PIA President and CEO Michael Makin both commended the GOP tax reform framework.

NPES is advocating a multifaceted government affairs agenda for the printing, imaging and mailing (PIM) industry in 2017.

For Printing Industries of America’s President & CEO, Michael Makin, you can’t talk about trends in the print industry without also taking into account the events and environment going on in the rest of the world.

The 2018 Print & Packaging Legislative Summit will take place June 19-20, 2018, in Washington.

The Illinois Graphic Arts sales tax exemption has finally been restored. This comes after 3 years of hard fought legislative sessions.