Business Management - Government/Governmental

On Tuesday, February 20, Xanté employees received a $1,200 bonus thanks to the corporate tax rate reductions in the tax reform bill.

Quad/Graphics consumes so much ink annually that U.S. raw materials providers aren't able to provide the type and quantity of pigments needed to meet its needs. To combat the problem, Quad is seeking a Foreign Trade Zone designation.

In this edition, tariffs will be applied to uncoated groundwood paper shipments, Stan Hooker has retired from Midland Paper, and more.

A preliminary determination on Jan. 9 by the U.S. Department of Commerce to impose countervailing duties (CVD) ranging from 4.43% to 9.93% has U.S. newspaper, book and commercial printers that buy imported Canadian uncoated groundwood paper seeing red. That's because it will deliver a severe blow to their bottom lines due to what amounts to an average countervailing duty of 6.53%.

The Secretary of Commerce announced an affirmative preliminary determination in the investigation of uncoated groundwood paper imports.

Few would deny that 2018 is shaping up to be a fraught and contentious year politically. But, it isn’t likely that political news of the headline-grabbing, “breaking” variety is going to have all that much to do with issues of primary concern to the printing industry. Those issues, nonetheless, are real, and the need for printers to understand and engage with them has seldom been more urgent.

The GPO has completed digitization of all historical issues of the Congressional Record dating to March 5, 1873.

Bryan Hall, president/CEO of Graphic Visual Solutions and the new chairman at Printing Industries of America, outlines key initiatives.

NPES President Thayer Long and PIA President and CEO Michael Makin both commended the GOP tax reform framework.

NPES is advocating a multifaceted government affairs agenda for the printing, imaging and mailing (PIM) industry in 2017.