Africa: America Needs New Trade Policy Like AGOA III

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Washington, DC — America needs to implement a new trade policy like AGOA III -- one that is forward-looking for the 21st Century while being grounded in what's best for people and nations and not what's merely expedient -- Democratic Congressman Jim McDermott told those gathered at the 2003 Private Sector Session of the Third U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum.

Speaking December 8 to an audience of ambassadors, ministers and business executives in Washington, McDermott said: "We need to practice international trade policy for a new century that recognizes our leadership as the world's single largest economy. We know a thing or two about how to do it right and how to do it wrong. We have a responsibility to share what we know works and address what we know no longer works."

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