Rosa Whitaker, President and CEO, The Whitaker Group
After nearly three decades of active engagement with the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), Rose Whitaker announced she is stepping down from the AGOA Alliance, where I have been honored to serve as Co-Chair.
As a Congressional staffer, she played a key role in the formulation and passed of the Act in 2000. She served as the first Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) for Africa appointed first by President Bill Clinton and reappointed by President George W. Bush. She founded and cntinnues to lead The Whitaker Group, she founded and operates The Whitaker Group, a corporate strategy and transaction advisory firm based in Washington, DC and Accra.
"I am grateful that this chapter ends with a meaningful milestone: the recent one-year extension of AGOA with retroactive benefits, enacted in an extraordinarily challenging policy and geopolitical environment," she wrote in an AllAfrica guest column.
US President Donald Trump has signed into law the one-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), with African countries restoring duty-free access to the US market until the end of the year.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the renewal of the AGOA applies retroactively from September 30, 2025, when the program expired, through December 31, 2026. Greer said the administration
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As the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) expires, what are the prospects for renewal ofthe trade legislation that has been supported by every U.S. administration since it was adopted by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 2000. The expiration is "dangerous," says Rosa Whitaker in an AllAfrica guest column. "AGOA has never been allowed to lapse, because U.S. policymakers
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