Coated Free Sheet End Users Feel Price Pressure

The USPS postage increases, raising energy, and now increased paper prices for Coated Free Sheet grades have challenged printers that use this grade. Hardest hit, are the West Coast printers where the vast majority of paper was from Asia – a source that recently met with a new USA Tariff. Papers from China and Indonesia were hardest hit, this made up 360,000 tons in 2006.