On 22 September 2021, the Commission adopted a legislative proposal for the EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) for the period 2024-2034. The current GSP Regulation is set to expire by the end of 2023. The Commission is proposing to continue the scheme while improving some of its key features.

Does your company import products from developing or least developed countries? This section helps you understand the EU’s GSP+. The EU’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) gives developing countries a special incentive to pursue sustainable development and good governance.

普及特惠稅制度（Generalized System of Preferences, GSP）是世界貿易組織（簡稱世貿，前身為關稅暨貿易總協定）下向發展中地區提供優惠關稅的制度。 普及特惠稅制度豁免部分世貿成員遵守 最惠國待遇 原則。

The GSP+ is the special incentive arrangement for Sustainable Development and Good Governance that supports vulnerable developing countries that ratified 27 international conventions on human rights, labour rights, environmental protection and climate change, and good governance.

The three arrangements of the scheme, the general GSP scheme, the GSP+ incentive scheme, and the Everything but Arms (EBA) scheme are reinforced by adjusting the preferences and ensuring they have a higher impact. GSP eligible countries are listed in Annex I …

What is the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) and why is it important? The EU’s GSP is a well-established trade and development policy instrument, which has been in place since 1971. The current GSP framework, which expires by the end of 2023, is based on Regulation (EU) No 978/2012 of 25 October 2012.

The Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) is an EU trade scheme that grants eligible developing countries preferential access to the EU market and thereby contributes to poverty reduction and development by expanding exports from vulnerable countries.

On 21 September 2021, the Commission published its proposal for a new EU scheme of generalised preferences (GSP). Two of the current scheme's three components are due to expire at the end of 2023, which would deprive developing countries of a vital opportunity to trade under preferential terms with the EU.

EU's Special Incentive Arrangement for Sustainable Development and Good Governance, GSP+, is part of EU's unilateral tariff preferences in favour of developing countries, the Generalised Scheme of Preferences, GSP, which was revamped as of 1 January 20141.

The map below shows countries currently benefiting from the EU’s GSP under one of the three arrangements. To read more about a GSP beneficiary, including key indicators, statistics, sustainable development priorities, and analysis, select from the map or list below.