Royal Chain Group is a family-owned importer and distributor of fine jewelry. Based in New York City, it supplies jewelry to retailers throughout the United States. Royal Chain imports gold and silver jewelry from Indonesia, Thailand, and Turkey under GSP. While GSP was expired, Royal Chain paid more than $2 million in new tariffs. It...
Continue readingIn July, the GSP program saved American companies $58 million on about $1.5 billion in imports. GSP saved U.S. companies $410 million in the first seven months of 2016. In the one year since renewal, GSP saved American companies about $700 million. Some states, such as Connecticut and New York, saw particularly large increases in...
Continue readingLast week, we profiled two companies (Summit Specialty International in Georgia and Sophia Foods in New York) that have bounced bounced strongly since Congress renewed GSP. Despite difficulties faced during the GSP lapse, both have more workers – and provide expanded benefits for those workers – than when GSP expired in 2013. (If you ha...
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