This morning we received an email from Halsted Corporation, one of the nearly 400 GSP supporter list organizations advocating for swift, retroactive GSP renewal. (Use these links to see the full list or add your organization.) Halsted has 30 employees and has paid $15,000 in extra tariffs since GSP expired a few weeks back. Nationally,...
Continue readingGSP expired on December 31, but new data available show GSP imports continued to climb toward the end of last year. In November, GSP saved American companies $84 million on about $2.0 billion in imports – once again exceeding any single month all the way back to October 2006. GSP imports were up by 14...
Continue readingBrian Miles from chemical distributor I. Stern & Co. in Clark, New Jersey doesn’t believe it can “sustain all of our salespeople if we are put into an uncompetitive price situation caused by the additional duty costs for our raw materials.” Thomas Snyder of Warehouse Associates in Indianapolis, Indiana, which supplies componen...
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