GSP has only been back in effect for a week, but we’re already hearing positive things from companies about the impacts. Take Thompson Traders in Greensboro, North Carolina, which manufactures and sells hand-hammered copper sinks for kitchens and baths. GSP expiration hit at a terrible time: just as the small but growing company reached a...
Continue readingWhat a difference GSP renewal can make for companies like Kona Bicycle in Ferndale, Washington. Nearly 30 years old, the independent company still has the same founding owners and a staff of active and impassioned cyclists. Kona describes itself as “a dedicated group of cyclists making bicycles for people who love bikes” – and GSP...
Continue readingMay 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...
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