ABSTRACT
Historically, the United States had tariffs on many forest products imports from Canada and elsewhere, including pulp, newsprint, other paper, and paperboard. After three decades of tariff battle on newsprint imports around the turn of the 20th century, the United States enacted the Reciprocity Act of 1911, which effectively free-listed newsprint and wood pulp from Canada, and the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913, which “admitted free of duty newsprint and wood pulp from all parts of the world and without qualification of any sort” ( Ellis 1948, 88 ). In the 1980s, the value of Canadian newsprint exports to the United States was similar to that of softwood lumber.
