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Publishers gain little in Canadian trade agreement; discriminatory postal rate issue to be...

Publishers gain little in Canadian trade agreement

Discriminatory postal rate issue to be revived in Senate hearings

United States publishers have apparently lost out in the recent Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada.

The primary issue at stake for magazine publishers is postage. Currently, U.S. publishers pay five to six times more than Canadian publishers when using Canada Post for distribution to Canadian readers.

Trade talks between the two nations, which concluded in November, attempted to bring postage rates

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