About 90 companies have responded to our GSP Expiration Poll. If your company is impacted and you haven’t responded yet, please do so at the link above! We’ll compile a formal report after we get some more responses, but a couple quick takeaways from the answers to date: Retroactive vs. Prospective Renewal – the overwh...
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That’s the takeaway from an article in today’s Roll Call about sleeping bags and GSP renewal. The article notes that Senator Sessions is content to block GSP renewal because “he believes he’s on the side of fairness.” Do you think it’s “fair” that companies throughout the United States are being...
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That question was asked by a respondent to our GSP Expiration Poll.* Unfortunately, the question is not simply rhetorical. The Connecticut-based company has less than 25 employees, but its tariff payments have increased by $45,000 to $70,000 per month since GSP expired. According to the company: “We have had to slash o...
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