October 23, 2025
GSP Travel Goods Fight Heats Up; AAFA Shifts Lobbying Away From TPP
The American Apparel & Footwear Association has made lobbying for travel goods to be granted duty-free access to all Generalized System of Preferences beneficiaries their number one priority, as opposed to building congressional support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership at a critical time, AAFA president and CEO Rick Helfenbein told Inside U.S. Trade in a July 7 interview. "Members [of Congress] who worked on GSP are livid. They're asking for meetings with USTR, they're writing USTR, I'm not privy to what...
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