GSP Is All Around Us
We 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...
Continue readingTime for Congress to Recognize That Imports Work by Renewing GSP
Over the last week, we’ve highlighted the ways that GSP supports American jobs, lowers costs for families, helps domestic producers compete, and promotes economic development abroad. Yet that is only true when GSP is in effect, and GSP has been expired for 9 months and counting. So our policy recommendation should come as no surprise:...
Continue readingGSP Expiration Cost American Companies $57 Million in March
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...
Continue readingGSP As A Tool For Economic Development
While American companies have come to rely on the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program to lower costs for key imports, the original intent was to promote economic growth in developing countries around the world. Instead of traditional means to stimulate growth, such as providing direct foreign aid, GSP created an incentive for U.S. compa...
Continue readingGSP Keeps American Producers Competitive
Many people think imports are bad because they take business away from U.S. producers. Yet the reality is that many goods imported into the United States are used by American companies to manufacture, grow, or otherwise “make stuff” in the United States. This is certainly true for products imported duty-free under the Generalized System...
Continue readingAmerican Families Love The Taste of GSP Savings
Think products that are imported into the United States free of tariffs (taxes) under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program don’t matter to you? Think again. Previously, we’ve shown some of the products found around the house that people (and their pets) use every day. But that’s just the beginning: here’s...
Continue readingHow GSP Supports American Jobs
May is World Trade Month. For most people, that means a chance to talk up the benefits of exports for American jobs. Yet for many American companies – and users of the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program in particular – access to imports has an important, positive, U.S. job impact that is too...
Continue readingWaiting on a $468 Million Tax Day Refund
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Continue readingGSP Expiration Cost American Companies $48 Million in February
According to new data released last week, American companies “claimed” GSP for about $1.45 billion worth of imported products in February. Typically, those products would not face import tariffs because of GSP, whereas those same products imported from a non-GSP country like China would face $48.2 million in import taxes. Since Congress...
Continue readingNEW REPORT: The Real Impacts of GSP Expiration – How Higher Taxes and Lower Sales Hurt American Jobs and Investments
What happens when Congress allows GSP to expire? According to a new report published today by the Coalition for GSP, the combination of higher taxes and the resulting lost sales force companies to take a number of harmful actions, including layoffs, hiring freezes, benefit cuts for workers, and delayed investments. The Real Impacts of GSP...
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