Written on July 8, 2014 in
GSP
It’s Tuesday, have you contacted your Senators and Representatives about the need to renew GSP yet? If not, now is a good time to use those links to do so. Remember to add as many details about your GSP use (what you import, how much you’ve paid because of expiration, etc.) as possible. We were...
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Written on July 1, 2014 in
GSP
As of today, GSP has been expired for a full 11 months. With a cost of more than $1.8 million per day, importers have paid an estimated $614 million in higher taxes because of Congress’ failure to renew GSP. It gets worse: after August 1, Congress has just 3 legislative weeks until mid November. That makes...
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Written on June 20, 2014 in
GSP
The other day, we wrote about the characteristics of the 572 companies and associations on the GSP supporter list. Yesterday, we added #573: Delta Brands in Larchmont, NY, which imports household cleaning, health, and beauty products from Turkey and India under GSP. We’ve added 13 companies to the supporter list in June, 12 of which...
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