On the recordMay 9, 2002
I certainly am a strong advocate of trade. I always have been. At the same time, I want it to be balanced and I want it to be fair. When there are disadvantages--and we have just seen one that this administration has spoken to in an area that is of great concern to the Senator from Minnesota and myself, and that is in timber, where Canadians had a unique advantage and were dumping in our market, and we finally spoke up, stepped up, put a duty on, and said back off, let us see if we can find an agreement. It is only with the use of the tool of trade remedy that we are now able to get the Canadians to blink and to think about possibly coming to the table to craft a fair and equitable agreement. That is exactly what our amendment would do.
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