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Ag Groups Ask for GSP Renewal, Linking it to Export Diversification

More than 25 agriculture groups asked the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees' leaders this week to renew the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program.

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The groups, led by the National Corn Growers Association, said GSP is a way to "deepen trading relationships" with beneficiary countries, critical to agriculture exporters who are always looking for more markets to sell to. “Participation in the GSP program should continue to be conditional on criteria that support U.S. market access into GSP beneficiary countries,” the groups wrote.