We 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 readingMay is World Trade Month. For most people, that means a chance to talk up the benefits of exports for American jobs. Yet for many American companies – and users of the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program in particular – access to imports has an important, positive, U.S. job impact that is too...
Continue reading[getty src=”172709561?et=GcWiOQ7veUCcIPCXAam_nQ&sig=4GqngzqV2fttUS29IMlV1bAT_d8n-2VMK47gpxuFRgs=” width=”450″ height=”354″] Tax day. For some that means refunds and others it means cutting a check to Uncle Sam. For GSP importers, it means another $1.8 million in higher import taxes (in addition to corporate t...
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