Today 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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Written on June 6, 2014 in
Brazil
Everyone likes to start the weekend on a positive note, right!?!? So we’re sorry to report that new data released this week showed that American companies paid another $61 million in unnecessary taxes in April because Congress still has not renewed the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program. More than a quarter of those taxes...
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Written on May 9, 2014 in
Brazil
According to new data released this week, GSP expiration cost American importers another $56.9 million in higher import taxes in March on $1.6 billion in GSP-claimed imports. That brings the total tariffs paid because of expiration to $441 million from August 1 to March 31. Since GSP has been expired for an additional 6 weeks...
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