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As of today, there has been no agreement reached between the PMA and the ILWU in this year’s round of contract negotiations. The PMA are the employers who own terminals at all West Coast ports, the ILWU are the longshore labor who load and unload the ships. In the past, many of the disagreements have …

When the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) Program expired on July 31, 2013, last year, members of the trade believed that the legislation would be renewed with retroactive benefits, weeks or months later, as it had in past years. Fast forward to today, and GSP has still not been renewed.  This is posing a problem …