People are being laid off at my US customers production facilities due to the increased cost of the raw materials they need to import to build their products.
Welsh Forest Products
Memphis, TN
We are a struggling small business that have been in existence for 11 years. There are no local manufacturers that can help us do our production. With the increased commodity prices, if we are required to pay extra duty which is representing 20% of our operating income, two more individuals will join the unemployment lines and trade activity in the amount of $800K will cease to exist.
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Sinem Oxan Inc 1465 Route 23 S #174 Wayne, NJ 07470 |
GSP expiration has cost our company over $50,000 so far this year. We’ve had to lay off a new hire just last month.
Scott Allman, Logistics Manager
Voxx Products
Torrance, CA 90501
We are a small company that imports fine jewelry from Thailand for distribution to retailers in the US, Canada, Mexico and Caribbean.
Since GSP expired last year, we have been forced to downsize our staff. In order to stay solvent, our company needs for the GSP to be reinstated.
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Eve Chiles Breuning Inc. Lawrenceville, GA |
Our company depends on GSP to get the right product to the right client at a good price. Without it we may have to lay off some employees or even close.
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Allan Zadik FAZ Marketing Houston, TX 77077 |
We’ve been importing chromium trioxide from Kazakhstan for several years. The payment of duties because of GSP expiration has hurt our competitiveness, caused us to lose sales, and reduced our need for warehouse labor due to the lower sales volume.
Reinstatement of the GSP program will enable us to resume our company’s growth (and the resultant employment).
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Ben Brock
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With a weak economy, a jump in raw materials costs and most of all, a very weak dollar, our company has been hit with a ‘triple Whammy.’ This along with delay in GSP renewal and put a tremendous hardship on the company’s survival. We employ 70 workers and would hate to start laying off people.
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Jon Bromberg, CEO
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