Inside Trade

December 7, 2024

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

November 26, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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...

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