Outside voices: A vote for GSP reauthorization ‘as soon as possible’

Renew the Generalized System of Preferences “as soon as possible,” three Center for Strategic and International Studies analysts say, contending that the nearly four-year sidelining of the oldest and largest of U.S. trade-preference programs “has handed China an uncontested opportunity to fortify its political and economic influence in the Global South.” The price of continued inaction, they warn in a pointed call to action (“ GSP matters ,” their title says), would be steep: “Failing to act will allow China...