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ITC Releases Public Version of Report on 2015-16 GSP Review

The International Trade Commission on May 27 released the public version of its report to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on potential changes to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program for 2015/2016, it said in a press…

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release (here). The 253-page report (here), 207 pages longer than last year's, includes data related to potential additions of products for all GSP beneficiary countries under subheadings 2204.21.20 (effervescent wine), 3301.13.00 (essential oil of lemon), and 7202.11.50 (ferromanganese containing by weight more than 4 percent of carbon). For potential addition of products under least-developed beneficiary developing countries and African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries, the report includes data on the 29 subheadings for certain handbags and travel goods products under heading 4202. The report will inform USTR’s 2015/2016 GSP Review. The advice contained in the report is confidential.