Whereas the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was authorized by title V of the Trade Act of 1974 ( 19 U.S.C. 2461 et seq.) to promote economic growth in developing countries and, from January 1, 1976, has provided duty-free treatment to goods of designated beneficiary countries; Whereas the 115th Congress most recently reauthorized the GSP program until December 31, 2020; Whereas GSP was carefully designed to exclude import-sensitive industries, such as textiles and apparel, to ensure that domestic producers and component suppliers would not be harmed; Whereas certain industry groups have proposed expanding GSP-eligible products to include textile, apparel, and footwear products; Whereas in a joint letter sent to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives on November 27, 2019, the governments of Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras warned that expanding GSP to include textile, apparel, and footwear products would lead to massive layoffs in these sectors, which provide 2,000,000 direct jobs in Latin America; Whereas the United States trade in goods and services with the Western Hemisphere totaled $1,900,000,000,000 in 2018; Whereas according to the Department of Commerce, United States exports of goods and services to the Western Hemisphere supported an estimated 3,800,000 jobs in 2015; Whereas according to data from the Office of Textiles and Apparel, the Western Hemisphere trade in textile and apparel products directly supports nearly 70 percent of United States textile and apparel exports and $35,000,000,000 in two-way trade; Whereas United States trade relations with other countries in the Western Hemisphere not only advance United States economic interests, but also advance prosperity, security, and economic opportunity in these countries, reducing the root causes of irregular migration and minimizing the conditions of poverty and unemployment that can enable drug-trafficking and other illegal economic activity