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    :: Friday, May 16, 2003 ::

    U.S. lumber industry plays hardball Producers would be hit with interim tax of 33% under plan.
    But Doman Industries Ltd. chief executive officer Rick Doman was cool to the idea of allowing the U.S. industry to keep most of the duties.

    "These are illegal duties," he said. "The U.S. government should have to repay all the money it has collected so far."

    "This sounds more like an anchor then a lure," said Carl Grenier, general manager of the Montreal-based Free Trade Lumber Council, the industry group that is most skeptical of U.S. motives in the dispute.
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