Category Archives: Duty-free preferences

Sandler Trade LLC brings unparalleled experience in how to maximize the use of duty-free and reduced-duty preferences for exports from emerging-market producers into the markets of the United States, European Union, Canada, and other developed countries. Ms. Sandler knows which products can achieve the greatest duty savings, maximizing their attractiveness to importers, and also knows how to analyze trade data to reveal if producers and importers are not taking full advantage of preferential treatment, resulting in thousands of dollars in duties being paid in error.

Ms. Sandler is well-versed in the preference programs’ regulatory processes and how and when producers and importers can most cost-effectively submit requests to add new products and to retain duty-free or reduced-duty entry for currently eligible products. In addition, because of Ms. Sandler’s years of leading the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program, she has built strong working relationships with the agencies involved in making these decisions.

Ambassadors Urge Senate to Pass GSP Renewal This Week

The U.S. Senate is due to begin its consideration of the bill to extend GSP this evening by voting on cloture to limit debate. The bill recently passed the U.S. House on a voice vote. The Ambassadors of the Coalition … Continue reading

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House Passes GSP as GSP-Eligible Imports Continue to Decline

U.S. imports eligible for GSP from January through July 2011  continue to drop. For all GSP-eligible items from the 129 GSP countries, imports are down 20.1 percent as compared to the same period last year. This, again, is in stark … Continue reading

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Ambassadors Urge House to Pass GSP Renewal

The Ambassadors of the Coalition of GSP Countries (Fiji, Indonesia, Kosovo, Mongolia, Paraguay, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, Thailand, and Uruguay)  have just transmitted this letter to all Members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging them to pass H.R. 2832, which will renew … Continue reading

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GSP Progress Stalls: Hearing Cancelled; Three Amendments could affect GSP

The Republicans boycotted the Senate Finance Hearing that was to begin at 3p today.  Rules require that at least one Republican attend – and none did. That forces any and all action on GSP renewal and other aspects of the trade … Continue reading

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No GSP: World’s Poorest Countries Losing Hard-Won Market Share while U.S. Importers Paying $1.8 Million Daily in Reimposed Duties

Coalition of GSP Countries Letter to Senate Majority Leader Reid Since January 1 of this year, U.S. imports from 131 countries – 1.3 billion people – are no longer entering the U.S. market duty-free.  All imports into the U.S. are … Continue reading

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