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What is Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)?



It is accepted wisdom that GSP renewal would offer an avenue for wide-ranging U.S.-India trade negotiations that can help in vaulting the bilateral trade relationship. 

About Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): 

It was instituted in 1971 under the aegis of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
It is a voluntary trade measure implemented by developed countries that provides an advantageous, or “preferential”, tariff treatment to imports from developing countries.
The preferences are in the form of either elimination or reduction in customs duty when the list of eligible products from the beneficiary developing country (BDC) is exported to the developed country.
However, an exporter under the GSP is required to fulfil the rules of origin under the GSP scheme. The rules of origin are the criteria required to ensure that the product exported originates from the country of export and is not being diverted from another country.
The GSP is a unilateral customs duty preference scheme i.e. there is no need for India or other BDCs to provide reciprocal customs duty preferences for the developed country.
The major countries that grant GSP preferences to developing countries are Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Canada, European Union (EU), Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), and Uzbekistan.
Each of these developed countries has its own regulatory framework under which it provides the GSP tariff preferences.
The GSP provided also varies in terms of the products on which preferences are provided and the developing countries' exports to which the tariff preferences are granted.
In terms of trade volumes, the GSPs granted by the EU and the US are the most comprehensive and hence, the most important for developing countries.
Some of the GSP schemes also provide additional tariff preferences to a specified class of developing countries, with most providing the largest coverage of GSP customs duty preferences to exports from Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
India is one of the primary beneficiaries in terms of export volume realized under the GSP. Around 40% of India’s exports to the EU are under the EU GSP, while prior to the US GSP withdrawal, around 10% of India’s total exports to the US were under the GSP.
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