Last week, we profiled two companies (Summit Specialty International in Georgia and Sophia Foods in New York) that have bounced bounced strongly since Congress renewed GSP. Despite difficulties faced during the GSP lapse, both have more workers – and provide expanded benefits for those workers – than when GSP expired in 2013. (If you ha...
Continue reading
Written on September 6, 2016 in
exports
On Friday, we published the first preliminary finding from our new GSP renewal survey: that nearly 1 in 4 companies was still waiting for refunds after one year. Today, we want to highlight the responses to another question that had not been asked in the past, namely whether or not the products receiving duty-free benefits...
Continue reading
Written on September 1, 2016 in
GSP
A few weeks back, we launched a survey on the impacts of GSP renewal after 1 year. (If you haven’t answered it already, please take a moment to do so now.) While many of the questions (or variations of them) have been asked in previous surveys, there were a few new ones as well. One...
Continue reading