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The U.S. Commerce Department’s decision last week to retain tariffs on newsprint from Canada was seen as something of a mixed bag, because the amount of the duties was reduced but they did remain in place. Here’s the opinion of the News Media Alliance, which continues to fight the tariffs …

By Tonda F. Rush NNA Director of Public Policy WASHINGTON, D.C. — July 17 will be the critical date for the Stop Tariffs on Printers and Publishers Coalition, as it tries to roll back tariffs imposed upon Canadian newsprint shipments into the U.S. That is the date when the International …

By Susan Rowell President of the National Newspaper Association There are two things you need to know about newspapers. Newspapers are important to community life and democracy. Always have been. We at the National Newspaper Association think it is important for all sorts of newspapers to survive for the sake …

Members of the printing, publishing and paper-producing industries, which employ more than 600,000 workers, are announcing the formation of Stop Tariffs on Printers & Publishers (STOPP), a coalition to fight proposed countervailing duties and anti-dumping duties on imports of Canadian uncoated groundwood papers including newsprint and other papers. These preliminary …

By David Chavern Every day at the News Media Alliance headquarters, a stack of newspapers arrives for myself and the staff. But with the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission currently considering tariffs on Canadian newsprint, those days of screen-free reading could be coming to an end. The …