Paper and cardboard production is an energy-intensive industry that creates significant carbon emissions.
Much energy-intensive industry would then decamp to the third world.
But even the environment audit committee has acknowledged the need for measures to help energy-intensive industries.
Overall, energy efficiency in energy-intensive industries has improved substantially since 1970.
He suggested that for specified energy-intensive industries, the fuel tax be no more than 2 percent of a given company's sales.
In recent days we have all heard criticisms of the suggestions, particularly from energy-intensive industry.
That is the only way the problems in the energy-intensive industries will be solved.
In energy-intensive industry this of course represents a disadvantage for competitiveness.
"It is essentially making energy-intensive industry noncompetitive in Chicago," he said.
Those two energy-intensive industries form the core of Ukraine's exports.