Agoa Summit: Africans’ plea to “refresh” trade with the United States

2023-11-06 14:47:21

Delegates attend the opening of the U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Business Forum on the Future of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) in Johannesburg, November 3, 2023. © SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERS

• Romain Chanson – in Johannesburg
  
  

Published on November 6, 2023

Lecture : 6 minutes.

Uncertainty is never good for business. But it’s In a climate of doubt that the Agoa forum has tenuous from November 2 to 4 in South Africa. The loi Agoa, pour African Growth and Opportunity Act, offer to the 35 eligible sub-Saharan African countries, exemptions of customs tariffs on 6,800 products exported to UNITED STATES. Adopted in 2000 and extended several times, it must come to an end in September 2025. Will it be maintained, when will it be renewed, and in what form? THE African countries are impatient of know.

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