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<p align="center"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="5"><strong>China Undercuts U.S. Paper Jobs</strong> </font> </font></p>
<p align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The U.S. paper sector is facing difficult times. In the last decade, approximately 200,000 jobs were lost. That represents about a third of the total jobs. Those remaining face an increasingly uncertain future if current trends continue. </font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: small"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">With over 100,000 Steelworkers employed in this sector, it is our members and the communities in which they live that are feeling the impact.</font></b></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In many cases, our Union has successfully argued that China’s violations of international trade laws have undermined many of our industries, including those in paper. A newly-released report supports our argument.</font></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The report, <a href="http://listserv.steelworkers.org/t/175306/1181852/137404/0/" target="_blank"><i>No Paper Tiger: Subsidies to China’s Paper Industry from 2002-09</i></a>, shows the following:</font></span></p>
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<li><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Chinese government is providing massive subsidies to its paper industry, including $33 billion in 2002-2009 alone. This has fueled their rapid rise in paper production, tripling output since 2000.</font></span></li>
<li><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When an industry is subsidized in this way, the product falsely appears lower-priced. </font></span></li>
<li><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">China makes much more than they need, exporting the rest.</font></span></li>
<li><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When cheap, illegally subsidized product reaches the U.S. market, our American-manufactured paper companies struggle to remain competitive, plants close, jobs disappear and families and communities suffer.</font></span></li>
<li><span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">And, these illegal subsidies violate our international trade rules. </font></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></li></ul>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Policy makers must intervene now to preserve our remaining domestic paper sector jobs. That’s why Rapid Response is currently taking this report to Congressional offices and requesting action.</font></b></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><b><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Get involved in upcoming paper sector activities!<br></font></b></span> </p>
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