Blumenauer won’t support new GOP-backed GSP reauthorization bill

House Ways & Means trade subcommittee ranking member Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) won't support a new bill to reauthorize the Generalized System of Preferences despite GOP efforts to appease Democrats by amending the proposal to include labor and environment provisions. Trade panel Chair Adrian Smith (R-NE) on Monday introduced a bill to renew GSP, with retroactivity, until 2030, without the labor and environment provisions committee Democrats have long said are needed to win their support. Ways & Means Committee Chair Jason...