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Ad campaign in Washington, D.C. newspapers call on Congress and Obama Administration to stand up for American jobs and U.S.-Canadian trade agreements already in place
Jump to full article: PR Newswire, 2009-07-31
Author: SOURCE North Carolina Farm Bureau
Intro: North Carolina Farm Bureau (NCFB) announced today that it is joining numerous other agricultural and tobacco-growing organizations in supporting an advertising campaign calling upon Congress and the Obama Administration to urge their counterparts in the Canadian Parliament to oppose or re-examine legislation that would ban American cigarettes blended with burley and flue-cured tobacco. The bill, known as C-32, would impose undue hardships on farmers who grow burley and flue-cured tobacco and could lead to other countries following Canada's protectionist lead, a development that could destroy an entire segment of the American tobacco growing community and affect thousands of jobs in the U.S.
C-32 has passed the House of Commons and will likely be considered by the Canadian Senate when the Parliament returns from its summer recess in September. The bill, which was originally intended to prohibit the production and sale of candy-flavored cigarillos to minors, has been expanded into an overreaching bill that would ban the entire category of American blend cigarettes, leading to loss of thousands of jobs and a worsening of trade relations between the United States and Canada. . . .
The advocacy campaign will feature two print advertisements over the next two weeks in Roll Call, The Hill and Politico, three newspapers that are widely read by Members of Congress, U.S. Senators, and policymakers inside the Obama Administration. The advertisements, which are entitled "Barn" and "Farm Couple," are attached to this press release.
"C-32 must be fixed before it is enacted,"
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