East Africa: Agoa Row Is Wake Up Call On Agriculture

editorial

In recent days, the big story in the East African region has been the US threat to withdraw export benefits enjoyed by Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi through what is popularly known as Agoa.

Agoa is the acronym for "African Growth and Opportunity Act", backed by a law passed in 2000 in the US to provide a window in which tax-free products would be exported to the US domestic market from Agoa qualifying countries in Africa, including those in our East African Community bloc.

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