Tag: US-Africa relations

In 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...

On 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...

South 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...

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(amendment) Bill of 2014, whose passing is crucial to the kingdom’s continued AGOA eligibility status, has been withdrawn from parliam...

The government has said that talks on its request to have the US government extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) are progressing well. Speaking in an exclusive int...

The message from the Americans is loud and clear: Swaziland has to ‘fully’ comply with five conditions or lose their eligibility to participate in the Africa Growth Opportunity...

US poultry producers are lobbying their government to withdraw South Africa’s duty-free access in retaliation for anti-dumping duties, which they say are unfair. South Africa en...

  Eckart Naumann, tralac Associate, discusses the outcomes of the 2013 AGOA Forum in the context of growing anxiety and uncertainty regarding AGOA’s future The 2013 U...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forms a part of United States trade legislation that provides non-reciprocal preferential market access to the US market for qualifyin...

Eckart Naumann, tralac Associate, comments on the extension of the third country fabric provisions in the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Last Thursday a massive vei...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has formed the basis for preferential US-African trade over the past decade. However, AGOA is about more than just trade, but represen...