All four members of Maine's congressional delegation say they believe the governments of China and Indonesia have illegally subsidized their paper industries, harming the state's manufacturers.
Speaking Thursday at a hearing in Washington, Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and Democratic Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud testified before the International Trade Commission on a petition by American paper manufacturers and their workers against Chinese and Indonesian subsidized imports.
The petitioners say those imports have materially injured America's paper industry. Snowe said those practices have had a harmful effect on production, prices and jobs in the United States.
Michaud said U.S. manufacturers can't compete in a market that's flooded with cheap imports.
