US government extends AGOA despite threats to exclude SA
The United States (US) government has extended the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) despite threats to exclude South Africa from the preferential trade programme.
Republican Representative for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District, Congressman Jason Smith, says, “For over two decades, the African Growth and Opportunity Act has been the foundation of America’s trade relationship with the nations of sub-Saharan Africa.
At times it seemed like the Trump administration was ready to scrap the African Growth and Opportunity Act or significantly curtail the programme and potentially exclude certain countries from being part of it.
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