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Canadian lumbermen using lower-cost foreign ships walked away with U.S. lumbermen's East Coast business, and Canadian softwood lumber exports to Puerto Rico have increased seventyfold since 1951 while the Pacific Northwest's share shriveled to nothing. Finally, in a desperation move to save the lumber industry, Congress last year amended the Jones Act to allow lumber to go to Puerto Rico on foreign bottoms for a one-year trial period...
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