Higher tariffs placed on newsprint produced in Canada is a threat to the survival of small town newspapers.
Rob Dump of Hartington is the publisher of six local papers in northeast Nebraska………..
The US Commerce department is adding duties of four and a half to twenty two percent on imports of the Canadian paper.
Dump says they could see their costs go up more than thirty percent….
Dump says they and the Nebraska Press Association have been working with the state’s Congressional delegation…..
Dump says they buy two semi loads of paper a year, and their current supply is about gone. Besides Hartington, they have papers in Osmond, Coleridge, Laurel, Randolph and Wausa.
