In late April, the United States suspended duty-free treatment for about 1/3 of Thailand’s imports under GSP. Lost GSP for Thailand cost importers up to $17 million in extra taxes from May to July; another burden for American GSP importers hurt by the Covid-19 pandemic and recession. New data suggests cloth face masks are the...
Continue readingGSP saved American companies over $400 million in the first half of 2020. GSP benefited companies in every state – and the map below shows the overall value of January-June 2020 GSP imports (in blue) and tax savings (in red) by state. The top states by GSP savings have been fairly consistent over the years....
Continue readingAccording to new research from the Coalition for GSP, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program saved American companies $1.035 billion in 2019. Total imports under GSP were nearly $21 billion. While imports under GSP were down from 2018, savings were about the same, as the average tariff waived jumped to 5.0% in 2019 from...
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