Last week, we received a response to our new GSP renewal impacts survey from Candace Abitbul from Sophia Foods in Brooklyn, New York. Candace and her husband Danny, who own the small business together, have repeatedly shared their GSP story over the years (see below for a timeline from an August 2014 post). As detailed...
Continue readingOn 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 readingIn June, the GSP program saved American companies $61 million on about $1.5 billion in imports. GSP saved U.S. companies $353 million in the first half of 2016, more than any year since 2012. Overall, the value of GSP imports increased by 9 percent and the value of GSP tariff savings increased by 14 percent...
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