On the recordOctober 5, 2011
In Oregon, we recently had the shutdown of a company called Blue Heron. It has operated for the better part of a century, making paper. The point Blue Heron was making was that because of the pegging of the currency, the paper they tried to sell to China faced a 25-percent tariff, while China's paper enjoyed a 25-percent subsidy if it was sold in the United States, and it created an absolutely unfair international trade playing field that was going to be putting American papermakers out of business. No matter how efficient they could possibly be, China, with this subsidy, could sell into the U.S. market, undercutting American products. Well, that plant shut down. It is one of a series of paper plants that have shut down. I think the Senator has some similar situations in Ohio.
