Crapo Amendment to Renew GSP, MTB Fails
During a round of votes on amendments on the Senate China package on May 25, Senate Finance Committee ranking member Mike Crapo's amendment, which called for renewing the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program and the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill, failed to pass (see 2105210045). It garnered 53 votes, with all Republicans joined by Sens. Angus King, I-Maine; Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., but it did not get the 60 votes needed for approval.
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Although Crapo, R-Idaho, used Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden's language on GSP and MTB, Wyden, D-Ore., voted against the amendment, which also called for more congressional say in whether the U.S. agreed at the World Trade Organization to curtail intellectual property rights of vaccine makers. Crapo opposes that change at the WTO, known as a Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights, or TRIPS, waiver; Wyden and most Democrats support it.
No amendments to the China package have been approved yet.