Angie Craig: “let me make several comments on an issue that is very important to this country. It is kind of a quiet issue that has…”

“let me make several comments on an issue that is very important to this country. It is kind of a quiet issue that has not been prominent in the headlines of the Washington Post or the Washington Times; but certainly in my State and every timber-producing State of the Nation, it has made a good many headlines over the course of the last year or 16 months. And that is the unprecedented flood of subsidized Canadian lumber flowing into the continental United States and into the markets of the 48 lower States. Normally, Canada is a supplier to our market, and we need their timber to round out the needs of the housing industry of our country and the home building industry. But to meet that need and still keep America's work force in the forest products industry employed, Canada's percentage participation in our market normally is somewhere in the high 20's or low 30's. In January, this month that is now today concluding, they reached an all-time high of about 37 percent of total market share. As a result of that, we now see in this country about 29,000 men and women who are unemployed as a direct result of a major dumping effort--let me repeat, as a direct result of a major dumping effort--on the part of the Canadian forest products industry into our market.”