On March 11, 1996, Mickey Kantor, the American trade secretary, announced that he was filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization to protest, first, the 80% excise tax on split run magazines under Bill C-103, second, the lower postal rates granted Canadian publications, third, the postal subsidy and, fourth, tariff 9958 making it illegal to import split runs into Canada.
American trade secretaries protest Bill C-103.
Mickey Kantor is an American trade secretary and does protest Bill C-103, but it is unclear whether other American trade secretaries are against Bill C-103 or have voiced any protest towards it.
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