US Trade Agency to Review Petitions for Changes to African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Benefits for US Canned Pear and Manganese Metal Imports

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The US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program will consider two petitions to alter benefits for US imports of canned pears and manganese metal, with a review timetable and public hearings announced

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