What Could Your Company Do if GSP is Renewed?
While there have been some promising developments on GSP renewal in recent weeks, a quick, retroactive renewal of GSP is far from assured. We need to keep providing Congress with compelling reasons to make this a priority. To that end, we’re collecting quotes about what a retroactive GSP renewal will allow your business to do...
Continue readingHappy 4th of July from Renew GSP Today….
…unless, of course, you’re one of the thousands of U.S. companies still paying unnecessary tariffs because Congress has yet to pass GSP renewal legislation. In honor of the holiday, we created our GSP flag made up of the money paid in tariffs every second that GSP has been expired. Fun facts about our GSP Expiration...
Continue readingSenate Finance Hearing: Coalition Letter to All Committee Members
In advance of today’s hearing on the pending FTAs and GSP renewal, the Coalition for GSP sent this letter to the trade staffer for all Committee Members.
Continue readingCompany Lays Off Workers…Worst May Be Yet to Come
The fifth installment in a our “American Faces of GSP Expiration” series. This Tennessee-based company, with additional manufacturing facilities in New York, Virginia, and West Virginia, has already laid off 5 workers because of GSP expiration. If GSP is not renewed soon, it may have an even greater impact on the ability of ...
Continue readingCoalition for GSP: Press Release on Senate Finance Committee Hearings
Issued today. Here’s an excerpt: “Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus’ announcement that the Committee will begin the process of renewing GSP is welcome news for the thousands of companies, primarily small businesses, that have been burdened by hundreds of millions of dollars in new tariffs since the start of the year,&rdq...
Continue reading“GSP renewal is essential to our family’s future”
While much of the news today is focused on the legislative process by which GSP may move ahead, we must continue to show why it is so important to renew GSP retroactively. Here is the fourth installment in a new series of one-pagers we’re rolling out called “The American Faces of GSP Expiration.” This Brooklyn-based...
Continue readingBaucus Announces GSP Renewal Legislation
This afternoon, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) announced that he would hold a “mock” mark up on legislation implementing the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA). Press release is available here. Included in this legislation is a renewal of the GSP program through July 31, 2013. The legislation...
Continue readingGSP Expiration: “We cannot continue operation like this.”
The third installment in a new series of one-pagers we’re rolling out called “The American Faces of GSP Expiration.” This New Orleans-based company is losing money on every sale of its most important product. Please contact the Coalition to be profiled in our “Faces” series.
Continue readingFaces of GSP Expiration: California
The second installment in a new series of one-pagers we’re rolling out called “The American Faces of GSP Expiration.” This California-based small business had to lay off a worker to compensate for increased costs. Please contact the Coalition to be profiled in our “Faces” series.
Continue readingThe American Faces of GSP Expiration
This is the first installment in a new series of one-pagers we’re rolling out called “The American Faces of GSP Expiration.” It tells the story of Tesoros Foods in Las Vegas, Nevada, an importer and exporter of food products whose business is put at risk because of GSP expiration. The more of these we can...
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