We want to thank all the companies that gave statements for our hearing submissions to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees. Both included comments from about 3 dozen companies on the pain caused by continued GSP expiration. You can download the House submission here and the Senate submission here. In addition to...
Continue readingBased 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 spent a good chunk of last week running around Capitol Hill and meeting with House offices about the importance of renewing GSP. Every office we met with had at least one GSP supporter list company headquartered in the district – one of them had 12 constituent companies (!) – so we knew there would...
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