Aluminum Foil Imports from Brazil, Armenia Save Millions for Domestic Manufacturers
Behr Dayton manufactures engine cooling and air conditioning technology for the automotive industry in a 1.1 million square foot facility in Dayton, Ohio. According to Heinz-J. Otto, President and CEO of Behr America, the 1,000 workers in Dayton “make engine-cooling and air-conditioning components and systems for cars built by GM,...
Continue readingThe Cost of One Month of GSP Expiration
As of midnight tonight, it will be exactly one month since Congress allowed GSP to expire. Since trade data reporting lags by about 6 weeks, we can’t know the value of January 2011 imports until mid March. We’re impatient, though, so we looked at imports under GSP in January 2010 to see what GSP expiration...
Continue readingGSP Renewal Finds Itself in a…Pickle?
Americans love their pickles. According to Pickle Packers International and its I Love Pickles website, we eat 2.5 billion pounds of pickles every year, or 20 billion pickles total. I Love Pickles has many other fun facts, but GSP didn’t make the cut. Perhaps it should have, since more than $30 million worth of jarred...
Continue readingGenerator Parts from Thailand
There’s a company in Louisville, Kentucky that designs, manufactures, and services Heat Recovery Steam Generators, or HRSGs. Basically, HRSGs increase energy efficiency by capturing the hot exhaust from a gas turbine and turning it in to steam that can be used to power another turbine. The Kentucky-based company imports parts for its HR...
Continue readingGSP Article from Politico
Politico posted an article today on the expiration of GSP. In the article, Coalition for GSP Executive Director Laura Baughman highlights the 80,000 American jobs supported by GSP imports and calls the companies harmed by the lapse in trade preferences “innocent victims.”
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Continue readingLocating GSP Importers
Surprisingly, it is very hard to know who benefits from GSP tariff savings, since the US government does not publish that information from the import records. Some people call us up and tell us their story. We read about other companies in official submissions when the government (typically the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative).....
Continue readingGSP Reduces Costs for Green Technologies
Lithium carbonates are one of the primary raw materials needed to manufacture next-generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries used in electric and hybrid-electric cars. Light-weight but power-dense, Li-ion batteries store more energy than regular batteries and allow electric and hybrid cars to go further between charges. As noted in this recen...
Continue readingHow Did We Get Here???
It’s been more than 8 years since GSP last expired. Why this year? GSP renewal frequently waits until (literally) the end of the legislative session, but Congress has been successful at striking a last minute deal to ensure continued benefits, as it did in 2006, 2008, and 2009. What happened this year? In summary, one...
Continue readingMotivation for “Renew GSP Today”
The other day, I received a call out of the blue. The person on the other end of the line had heard from their customs broker that prices were going up because GSP expired. They did some google searches and came across my number. We chatted for a bit and I learned that the company,...
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