Lin Kuo-lung formed the Yunlin Towel Industrial Technology and Development Association, serving as its first executive director, and petitioned the government to increase import tariffs on mainland Chinese towels. In March 2006, he chartered 25 tour buses to bring more than 1,000 towel makers to Taipei and protest the Taipei visit of Chen Yunlin, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, fighting for the industry's right to survive.
繼而林國隆發起組成「雲林縣毛巾產業科技發展協會」，擔任第一屆總幹事，要求政府以「進口救濟」名義提高大陸毛巾進口關稅，並在 95 年 3 月，號召 25 部遊覽車、一千多位毛巾業者，在大陸海協會會長陳雲林來台時北上抗議，努力爭取產業的生存權。