Trump Eyes New 30 Percent Tax on Newsprint

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 countervailing duties under the Tariff Act of 1930.

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Seal Pup Wanders Two Miles Inland To Parking Lot of Pizza Place

Matthew McDonald

The three-foot-long 40-pound seal pup was found in the parking lot of a pizza place on the other side of Route 6A in Yarmouthport on Cape Cod. Good Samaritans who put the seal in box for safekeeping were scolded by experts; the seal is fine.

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