Trump Eyes New 30 Percent Tax on Newsprint

If you think President Donald Trump has an antagonistic relationship with the press now, just wait until his administration slaps a new 30% tax on newsprint. Seriously. That's the threat America's newspaper publishers are warning about, with the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration set to issue a preliminary determination by March 7, 2018 on whether Canada's export into the United States of "certain uncoated groundwood paper" meets the legal tests to qualify for countervaili

If you think President Donald Trump has an antagonistic relationship with the press now, just wait until his administration slaps a new 30% tax on newsprint. Seriously. That's the threat America's newspaper publishers are warning about, with the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration set to issue a preliminary determination by March 7, 2018 on whether Canada's export into the United States of "certain uncoated groundwood paper" meets the legal tests to qualify for countervaili…