How are import tariffs impacting the print market?
Steve Sussman: Coated free sheet paper continues to be imported from Korea, China, and Indonesia with no anti-dumping or countervailing duties. The Chinese tariff was recently repealed. This means that US printing concerns will remain competitive with Mexican and Canadian printing organizations. Spend Matters: What are some lessons learned from global aggregation and demand management? Steve Sussman: I’ll answer this in three parts: A) Printers are scaling up their ability to handle multiple languages and cultural aspects of print. Now many mid-sized forms are addressing this segment, so global sourcing can now look at smaller mid-sized organizations. B) Aggregation and demand management for marketing materials focuses on paper, application of P2P players, and those larger firms that can address production and delivery to the field. An example is the delivery of custom imprinted field materials for the field. This can be aggregated into a self-serve delivery model on a global scale equ
