[Note: we received the following from a Coalition for GSP member Nina Designs in Emeryville, California. We’re posting with permission. No edits were made except formatting for the website and deleting the last names of the women in Indonesia.] Dear Legislators, &nb...
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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...
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Written on September 23, 2016 in
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In 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...
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