Written on January 26, 2021 in
Burma
Congress allowed the GSP program to expire on December 31. With tariff savings of nearly $3 million per day, GSP expiration likely has cost American companies over $70 million in new taxes. We recently spoke with Patrice Gerber, Founder/CEO of small business Kouboo LLC in Laguna Beach, California – one of those hurt by GSP...
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Written on October 8, 2020 in
Burma
The Cannon Group in Westerville, Ohio is a family-owned company that provides plastic packaging products to newspapers, grocery stores, and other cost-conscious industries. Due to Covid-19, it has begun supplying PPE products, initially to help existing customers keep their businesses running and more recently providing PPE products to the State of...
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Written on November 20, 2019 in
Brazil
GSP saved American companies $80 million in September, about $10 million less (-11%) from September 2018. It marked the fourth month in a row that year-over-year savings declined, due wholly to terminated GSP for India and Turkey. Despite lost GSP for those two key supplier countries, GSP saved American companies $797 million in the first...
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