Trump's trade war with China blamed for Mount Vernon mill closure
The impacts of President Trump's trade war with China are now starting to affect business in Western Washington.
Northwest Hardwoods headquartered in Tacoma is the nation's largest supplier of hardwoods. The company announced this week it's having to close its mill in Mount Vernon, indefinitely.
B.J. Nersten has worked in lumber mills for 39 years, through wars, recessions, and the spotted owl.
Some would call him a dying breed. B.J. calls himself something else.
"I'm gonna say, a survivor," Nersten said.
Few at his mill, however, will survive this latest blow.
Just about all of the 70 workers at Northwest Hardwoods Mount Vernon location are losing their jobs. They're collateral damage in the President's ongoing economic battle with China.
"It seems like our mill is a casualty of that war, so to speak," said Nersten, "the tariff war."
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