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United States of America: Changes to the Generalized System of Preferences

Announcement

25 Oct 2019

The operation of the GSP is subject to annual reviews by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

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Number of interventions

5

2 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

3 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

25 Apr 2020

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 25 Oct 2019
Import tariff In force
On 25 October 2019, the USTR announced the results of its most recent annual review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). One of its outcomes was excluding multiple products from Thailand fr...
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Implementation date

01 Nov 2019

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 25 Oct 2019
Import tariff In force
On 25 October 2019, the USTR announced the results of its most recent annual review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). One of its outcomes was removing from GSP treatment imports of certa...
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Implementation date

01 Nov 2019

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 25 Oct 2019
Import tariff In force
On 25 October 2019, the USTR announced the results of its most recent annual review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). One of its outcomes was restoring GSP treatment for Thailand’s GSP b...
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Announced: 25 Oct 2019
Import tariff In force
On October 25, 2019 the USTR announced the results of its most recent annual review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). One of its outcomes was restoring GSP treatment for two products req...
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Implementation date

30 Oct 2019

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Announced: 25 Oct 2019
Import tariff In force
The USTR also announced that the president would restore some GSP benefits for Ukraine following that country’s “passage of legislation aimed at addressing shortcomings in its intellectual property (I...
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