Yesterday, the Ambassadors to the United States from nine GSP beneficiary countries sent a joint-letter to Congressional leadership urging GSP renewal. A copy of the letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Baucus is available here. The Hill newspaper picked up on the story yesterday afternoon. The countries represent some of the lar...
Continue readingAs promised last week, we updated the GSP Supporter List by CD to include secondary locations for signature companies. As a result, the GSP Supporter List now covers about 400 locations found in 230+ congressional districts. Even this updated version vastly understates the geographical “footprint” of the companies, since we did no...
Continue readingOver the weekend, we were tipped off to the website for Megabeadstore, which is based in Albany, California. The company imports component jewelry parts, and GSP waived tariffs of 5.0 percent to 13.5 percent. To date, Megabeadstore has absorbed the cost of the new tariffs in the hopes that Congress would act quickly to renew...
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