While successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations have yielded substantial duty reductions around the world, many costly tariffs remain. St.Maxens & Company works with corporate clients through the optimal channels to secure the elimination or deepest possible reduction in tariffs on the individual products of greatest importance to them. These channels include, inter alia, the following: Negotiations - securing the elimination or deepest possible reduction in a foreign or U.S. tariff on a particular product through WTO, bilateral and regional negotiations Duty suspension bills - securing a suspension of the U.S. duty on a specific product for a multi-year period through a duty suspension bill passed by Congress as part of its periodic miscellaneous tariff bill packages GSP - securing and maintaining preferential duty-free status for imports of a particular product through petitions filed under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences