Been down on Capitol Hill for meetings this week on GSP renewal with Congressional staff and one issue keeps popping up: retroactive renewal (i.e., refunds for tariffs paid to date). The thinking is that any renewal will be limited in duration based on the funding available. However, the question remains: given a limited GSP extension,...
Continue readingYesterday, the Ambassadors to the United States from nine GSP beneficiary countries sent a joint-letter to Congressional leadership urging GSP renewal. A copy of the letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Baucus is available here. The Hill newspaper picked up on the story yesterday afternoon. The countries represent some of the lar...
Continue readingAs promised last week, we updated the GSP Supporter List by CD to include secondary locations for signature companies. As a result, the GSP Supporter List now covers about 400 locations found in 230+ congressional districts. Even this updated version vastly understates the geographical “footprint” of the companies, since we did no...
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