This compact webinar covered the following issues:

• A brief history and legal format of AGOA

• Renewal timelines, country coverage, eligibility criteria and potential red flags for business, eligibility review processes

• AGOA trade performance, AGOA product coverage

• AGOA product qualification criteria (rules of origin)

• US tariff classification system and how to correctly establish HTS code

• Tools to determine AGOA/GSP product status and standard US import tariffs

• Intro to the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and how it interfaces with AGOA, implications for business of GSP and/or AGOA renewal/non-renewal

• Post-AGOA Forum updates, review of draft legislative proposals and potential out-of-cycle review of South Africa’s eligibility

• Potential AGOA-African Continental FTA (AfCFTA) interface: how might this benefit African exporters?

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