Tag: AGOA

Ugandan traders’ failure to exploit the huge American market under AGOA agreement is due to the private sector’s failure to produce enough and good quality products, an offic...

Sean Woolfrey, tralac Researcher, comments on the recent termination of Swaziland’s eligibility for trade preferences under the AGOA Late last month, United States Presiden...

Swaziland, located in southern part of Africa, has been excluded from the list of countries eligible to get benefit under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) of the US Go...

The threat of Swaziland being suspended from a US preferential trade agreement for poor progress in meeting democratic norms is threatening the livelihoods of tens of thousands of ...

by Eckart Naumann, tralac Associate The opening line of Public Law 106–200 of May 2000, known more commonly as the (original) AGOA legislation, reads: “To authorize a new trad...

Lack of an AGOA policy seen as main cause of fading dream It is exactly 14 years since the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law by the US Congress to spur deve...

The Government will consider giving some US producers the same access to the local market as the EU, if that’s what it takes to save its African Growth and Opportunity Act (...

The African Union has urged member countries to push for the extension of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for the next 15 years to enable them maximize benefits t...

The all-important Industrial Relations (amendment) Bill of 2014, whose passing is crucial to the kingdom’s continued AGOA eligibility status, has been withdrawn from parliam...