Article: U.S. Wood Products Industry Applauds President's Efforts to Open Japanese Market

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- "The National Forest Products Association applauds President Bush's decision to personally become involved in the effort to open fully Japan's market," said Barry Cullen, president of NFPA.

"Despite world-class competitiveness, the U.S. wood products industry has found access to the critically important Japanese market seriously restricted by a profusion of tariff and non-tariff barriers."

The National Forest Products Association noted that these barriers to U.S. wood products take two forms: tariff barriers on processed wood products that limit the ability of U.S. producers to sell value-added wood products in Japan, and a host of complex regulations ...

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