The European Union in 2002 imported 53 billion euros ($66 billion) in goods -- three times the level of the United States -- from poor countries like Angola, Bangladesh and Nigeria under a system of preferences.
The suspension will revoke the breaks on tariffs that the United States gives Bangladesh under the Generalized System of Preferences, a World Trade Organization program that seeks to promote economic growth.
Citing Dhaka's "apparent disregard for the lives and livelihoods of the very workers who create the country's wealth," the AFL-CIO has been pressing the Obama administration to suspend Bangladesh's trade privileges under the general system of preferences, with a decision due soon.
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For example, Great Britain and its Commonwealth countries operated a system of reciprocal tariff preferences after 1919.
It calls, therefore, on the Commission to honour its obligation to monitor Swaziland's adherence to human rights and to labour and environmental conventions under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), and to open an investigation to determine whether there has been a serious and systematic violation of the labour rights protected under the GSP.
In a letter, Trump said India would no longer receive benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), which was set up to promote trade from developing countries.
The European Union and several other countries exempt certain Bahamian products from duties under the Generalized System of Preferences.
Sri Lankan textiles entering the European Union enjoy low tariffs under the generalised system of preferences known as GSP+.
Many low-income countries can already export some goods duty-free under the "Generalised System of Preferences".
In 1997, for instance, the Clinton administration suspended half of Argentina's benefits under the general system of preferences because its pharmaceutical patent law was deemed unsatisfactory.
