โ Scribed by Susan L. Whittington
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Foe U 5 find that Canadian subsidies are causing "significant" harm to American industry.
The agreement on the subsidy language came at the end of long negotiations by House and Senate Congressional staff and Administration representatives on what the legislation to carry out the free trade agreement, signed by President Reagan and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in January, should actually say. The deadline for ratification of the agreement by Congress and the Canadian Parliament is December 31.
The insertion of language on Canadian subsidies seems to indicate that the coal industry and associated groups, which have criticized Canadian power imports on the grounds they are detrimental to domestic power production in the U.S., are having some success in their work with Congress. Last year the Coalition convinced Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV) to introduce a bill that would restrict imports of Canadian power unless Canadian generating facilities met environmental rules similar to those in U.S. Even though a Rahall aide comments that the bill was a "symbolic gesture," Coalition lawyer Jim Friedman continued to thump for the bill during testimony at free trade hearings earlier this year. He also called for a moratorium on long-term Canadian power import contracts until more studies of the effects of Canadian power subsidies are completed.
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