Based on data released this week, continued GSP expiration cost American importers another $58 million in August 2014. For a number of states – Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Wyoming – August 2014 was the most costly month to date in terms of tariffs paid. (Depressing that we now must use the...
Continue readingWe frequently note that each day of GSP expiration costs American importers nearly $2 million in additional taxes. We also highlight the diverse GSP importers that are on the supporter list. But we don’t know how many other GSP importers might be paying those taxes on any given day. So we decided to conduct an...
Continue readingToday we added the 572nd organization to the GSP supporter list. The number 572 doesn’t have any special significance (although it is one of these), but we thought it was a good time to highlight those calling on Congress to renew GSP. You may notice that many of these sentences are well under 140 characters....
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