Senate Finance Chair Calls for Swift Passage of GSP, ATPA Extension, MTB

Senator Baucus (D), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, issued a statement calling for swift Senate passage of the Omnibus Trade Act of 2010, which would extend the Generalized System of Preferences program and Andean Trade Preferences Act/Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act, implement hundreds of duty suspensions and reductions, etc. The House passed H.R. 6517 on December 15, 2010.

See today’s ITT, 10122033, for BP summary on the placement of a "hold" on H.R. 6517.