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 September 11, 2017 in
Alabama
In July 2017, the GSP program saved American companies $73 million on about $1.8 billion in imports. GSP imports were up by 18 percent – and tariffs savings were up by 23 percent – compared to July 2016. (NOTE: that likely understates savings, as U.S. government data show no claimed GSP benefits for imports of...
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Written on July 26, 2017 in
Alabama
In May 2017, the GSP program saved American companies $72 million on about $1.8 billion in imports. GSP imports were up by 14 percent – and tariffs savings were up by 16 percent – compared to May 2016. Some states such as New Hampshire and New Mexico saw much larger increases in GSP imports and...
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