U.S. Trade Representative Announces Deadlines for GSP Product and Country Practices Review

Summary

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is accepting petitions to modify the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, with deadlines of December 5, 2011, for country practice petitions and December 16, 2011, for petitions requesting competitive need limitation waivers.

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