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USTR Grants GEO Specialty Chemicals’ Request to Raise Import Duty Rate on Glycine

7/14/2017

July 10, 2017, Ambler, Pa. -- GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc. (GEO), the largest U.S. glycine producer, successfully petitioned the USTR to remove glycine, also known as aminoacetic acid, from the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program.  The GSP program provides duty-free status to thousands of products imported into the United States from 120 developing countries and territories designated as beneficiaries under the program. 

USTR Grants GEO Specialty Chemicals’ Request to
Raise Import Duty Rate on Glycine