"Will" wrote in message
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George wrote:
"Will" wrote in message
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Sounds like the Canada-USA timber/softwood war in a nutshell.



Wouldn't have been a problem if Canada had one of those folks as PM who
would just jack up the price rather than try and steal the livelihood
from
US producers....

George: don't take offense...

Clearly this is not an easy problem...

Because if you think about your reply, I guess you could say that you
and Owen are saying the same thing... Free trade and free pricing --
unless the "home team" is getting hurt. LOL

I think that if the Canadian PM tried to set prices then people would
scream "socialism" -- or "commies under the bed". (Or Fascism or
National Socialism" or something - and probably rightly so... )

It would be even more difficult since virtually all the big companies
selling Canadian Lumber (at high volume) into the US are USA owned and
operated... I doubt they would remain quiet for price regulation. They
find it difficult already -- since they are squarely on both sides of
the issue -- having US ownership and Canadian resource production.

But at the same time you seem top be advocating a "free market" by
requiring minimum prices. Something you railed against earlier.

I say the above not to "call you out" -- just to point out the
difficulties we all face when confronting pricing, copying and
production issues.

Being the low cost producer of a valued product always seems to get the
dogs set on you.

All we can seem to agree on is that there are difficult issues, and we
will _all_ change our minds if the "home team" is the one getting hurt.

I suspect you already knew of the conflicts in your own position and
were smiling while you typed.

Fair enough. :-)

Enough of this... Time for lunch and finish my amateurish shop stool.

Every spindle I turned for the stool was different -- all four. I am
going to claim it is artistry - not a lack of consistency. LOL


Then there are domestic problems as well. After Bubba's lame-duck land
grab
shut off a mess of acreage up here, we lost a competitive mill because
the
diminished supply of softwood logs could not keep it in production.

We have lots of softwood logs here. Third growth mostly.






--
Will R.
Jewel Boxes and Wood Art
http://woodwork.pmccl.com