On Friday we wrote about these being very tough times for many GSP importers. As we compile responses from our most recent survey, it’s painful to read about how lives have been hurt by GSP expiration. And why? At the most basic level, these people are suffering for two reasons: *only* 99 percent of Senators...
Continue readingWe continue to receive responses to our survey on the impacts of GSP expiration after 1 year. To be blunt, they are not pretty. Here are a couple responses we heard this morning: One small business in Illinois laid off a worker yesterday. They have also delayed two hires, so instead of 12 employees they...
Continue readingTo date, we’ve had about 80 responses to our new expiration survey. That’s decent…but we need a whole lot more (especially since our last survey report had ~220 responses). So if you have not done so already, please take a minute to answer the survey. The deadline to respond is next Friday, August 29, but...
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