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
GSP expiration has cost my company more than $50,000. We import fishing equipment and baseball equipment and the higher duties we have been paying has caused us to be much less competitive than in the past and has hurt our sales.
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Mark Hall Manager, Commercial Fishing Division Fitec International Inc. Memphis, TN |
The failure to renew GSP has cost our company in excess of $500,000 to date and that has come from our bottom line. Needles to say that means we no longer have a bottom line. We are counting on the renewal so we can open a new plant that we have planned. The failure to renew is costing American jobs!
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Melvin Burkhardt Mullican Flooring Johnson City, Tenn |
