Tag: AGOA
South Africa lobbies the US to extend Agoa
27 Oct 14 NewsIn August this year, US President Obama made a commitment to support the continuation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), a legislation that provides duty-free market...
South Africa ducks Agoa exclusion, for now
10 Oct 14 NewsAs concerns mount of South Africa’s dominance with the trade pact.
South Africa can breathe a sigh of relief for now, as indications are clear that the African Growth and Opport...
AGOA: Observations on Competitiveness and Diversification of U.S. Imports from Beneficiary Countries
13 Aug 14 NewsWhat GAO Found
U.S. imports from African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries have increased since 2001, but AGOA countries’ share of overall U.S. imports remained small ...
SA offers chickens for Agoa renewal
06 Aug 14 NewsThe government is likely to allow some US chicken imports into the local market at lower tariffs in exchange for continued participation in the lucrative African Growth and Opportu...
Presidential Memorandum – Establishing a Comprehensive Approach to Expanding Sub-Saharan Africa’s Capacity for Trade and Investment
05 Aug 14 NewsIn June 2012, I released the US Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, outlining a comprehensive US policy for the region.
The Strategy builds on many of the initiatives launched dur...
Agoa: Calls for SA to graduate out of the US trade programme
04 Aug 14 NewsIn addition to SA’s relatively advanced development, the US disapproves of the country for its ‘antagonism’, focus on Brics, and Middle East position.
As African leaders des...
The US-Africa Leaders Summit and the future of US-Africa trade and investment relations
31 Jul 14 EventOn Monday 28 July 2014, tralac attended a roundtable discussion hosted by the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business in partnership with the South African Institut...
Growing the development dividend: U.S. trade policy and global development in the 21st century
31 Jul 14 NewsRemarks by Ambassador Michael Froman at the Brookings Institution, 29 July 2014
A Shared History
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Human progress is neither automatic nor...
Extend Agoa, urges SA
30 Jul 14 NewsSouth Africa wants the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) to be extended for a 15-year period.
“Our views as South Africa are very similar to the views of Africa, Agoa el...
AGOA failure blamed on private sector
28 Jul 14 News
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...
Drawing lessons from Swaziland’s AGOA exclusion
10 Jul 14 DiscussionSean 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 loses AGOA benefits from January 1, 2015
02 Jul 14 NewsSwaziland, 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...
Swaziland braces itself for AGOA exit
18 Jun 14 NewsThe 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 ...
Proposed legislation related to limitations on foreign ownership in the security industry in South Africa: AGOA matters
11 Jun 14 Discussionby 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...
As Africa celebrates, it is total agony as Uganda’s AGOA dream fades
28 May 14 NewsLack 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...
Agoa creates goodwill for US – Davies
06 May 14 NewsThe 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 (...
AU pushes for AGOA extension
29 Apr 14 NewsThe 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...
Jan withdraws AGOA Bill
14 Apr 14 NewsThe 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...