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Africa: U.S.-Africa Trade Policy Faces Uncertain Future
allAfrica, 21 September 2021
U.S. trade policy toward Africa is facing a conundrum. Much has changed in the two decades since the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) set the framework for trade between… Read more »
What Shape for U.S.-Africa Trade Policy After AGOA Ends in 2025?
With the African Growth and Opportunity Act expiring in 2025, what are the prospects for a revised African trade initiative? According to long-time Congressional staffer Tom Sheehy, "the policy path is less clear than when Agoa became law, and the prospects for a substantial African trade initiative gaining political support are more challenging." A bipartisan coalition in Congress that has back Agoa passage in 2000 seems unlikley now. "Competition with China could help drive an Africa trade agenda, but supporters must first figure out the policy," says Sheehy, who was a key participant in the African trade policy deliberations as staff director of the House Foreign Affairs Committee for six years.
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Africa: Development Policy Needs to Be DARPA-fied
Atlantic Council, 9 July 2021
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of 2000 marked an important shift in US-Africa policy, and more broadly US development policy, moving the commercial relationship… Read more »
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Africa: AGOA's 21st Anniversary Today
TWG, 18 May 2021
21 years ago today, the landmark African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) became law, inaugurating a new era in US-Africa economic relations. I honor the pioneering Bipartisan… Read more »
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Lesotho: 45,000 Textile Jobs At Severe Risk
Lesotho Times, 27 January 2021
With only about a week left, the United States government says it is "disheartened" by Lesotho's failure to address its human trafficking concerns. Read more »
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Proposed changes to the US Generalized System of Preferences program (GSP) threaten to vitiate key provisions of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), a coalition of ... Read more »
