After Blue Heron, Grays Harbor shut, Senator calls on the WTO to act

摘要

US Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-OR, blamed China -- which two years ago became the largest single country producer of paper and board in the world in front of the USA -- for causing the permanent shut earlier this year of Blue Heron Paper, which made newsprint, and high bright, bag, and toweling papers in Oregon City, OR. The Oregon City mill was the first one that permanently shut this year in the Pacific Northwest and was followed by the May closure of the Grays Harbor Paper uncoated freesheet paper mill in Hoquiam, WA. Both mills counted on recovered paper fiber for making their paper.