Sources: White House scuttled Crapo’s attempt to renew AGOA, reauthorize GSP 

Senate Finance Committee Chair Mike Crapo (R-ID) hoped to renew the African Growth Opportunity Act and reauthorize the Generalized System of Preferences via his panel’s recently released budget plan but was waved off by the White House before its release, according to industry sources. The Senate Finance Committee majority last week issued its portion of a Republican budget and tax-cut focused bill that is moving through Congress via reconciliation. The text did not include any trade measures. But Crapo had...