Blumenauer: GSP reform will offer clues about Biden’s trade approach

Efforts to reform the Generalized System of Preferences will provide lawmakers important clues about the Biden administration’s trade policy approach, House Ways & Means trade subcommittee Chairman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) said this week. Blumenauer last month introduced legislation that would have extended GSP by six months and add several new eligibility criteria -- in areas such as human rights, rule of law and anticorruption -- he said would strengthen the program. Meanwhile, a handful of GOP lawmakers including Senate Finance...