Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 0683
Sponsors: SPEAR, CHIPMAN, DOW, JACKSON, BEEBE-CENTER, HERBIG, SIMMONS, SUTTON

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Thursday, February 1, 2018 
(4-5)  On motion by Senator MIRAMANT of Knox (Cosponsored by Representative SPEAR of South 
Thomaston and Senators: CHIPMAN of Cumberland, DOW of Lincoln, JACKSON of Aroostook, 
Representatives: BEEBE-CENTER of Rockland, CASÁS of Rockport, HERBIG of Belfast, SIMMONS 
of Waldoboro, SUTTON of Warren), the following Joint Resolution: 
S.P. 683 
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 
TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN 
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JOINT RESOLUTION SUPPORTING MAINE CEMENT 
MANUFACTURING AND OPPOSING SUBSIDIZED FOREIGN CEMENT 
IMPORTS 
WHEREAS, the Dragon Products Company cement plant in Thomaston is the only cement 
manufacturer in Maine and in all of New England; and 
WHEREAS, Dragon Products Company directly employs over 100 citizens of the State in the 
process of manufacturing cement from limestone and Dragon Products Company's manufacturing 
operations directly or indirectly support over 500 Maine jobs; and 
WHEREAS, the Canadian Province of Quebec has subsidized the construction of  McInnis Cement's 
new 2,000,000-ton per year capacity cement manufacturing plant in Port-Daniel-Gascons, Quebec; and 
WHEREAS, both McInnis Cement executives and Quebec officials have stated publicly that there is 
no Canadian market for the new plant's cement production and that over 90% of the new plant's 
production will be exported to the United States to compete directly with Dragon Products Company and 
other domestic cement manufacturers; and 
WHEREAS, McInnis Cement has completed construction of a deep-water cement import terminal in 
Providence, Rhode Island to serve the Boston, Massachusetts and southern New England cement markets 
and is building a 2nd deep-water cement import terminal in the Bronx, New York City to serve the New 
York and New Jersey cement markets; and 
WHEREAS, McInnis Cement started manufacturing cement in July 2017 and shipped its first vessel 
of subsidized Canadian cement to its Providence terminal in August 2017; and 
WHEREAS, the subsidized Canadian cement being exported by McInnis Cement to the United 
States poses a threat to the continued operations of the Dragon Products Company cement plant in 
Thomaston and the hundreds of Maine jobs directly or indirectly supported by the plant; now, therefore, 
be it 
RESOLVED: that We, the Members of the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Legislature now 
assembled in the Second Regular Session, on behalf of the people we represent, take this opportunity to: 
1. Condemn any violation of international trade laws and treaties between the United States and 
Canada; 
2. Express our full support for the efforts that may be undertaken by domestic cement manufacturers 
to bring countervailing duty and antidumping petitions against McInnis Cement before the United States 
Department of Commerce and the United States International Trade Commission; 
3. Support international trade litigation against McInnis Cement through all appropriate means to 
preserve Maine cement manufacturing jobs and to enforce the international rule of law against subsidizing 
exports and dumping products into the United States; and 
4.  Support the efforts of Maine businesses and local governments to purchase, to the maximum 
extent possible, Maine-manufactured and other domestically manufactured cement for use in all public 
and private construction projects across the State. 
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