AFRICAN QUOTAS
January 1st, 2002
BY RICHARD HURSTUSA President George W. Bush has approved 35 African countries as eligible for tariff preferences regarding clothing and textile exports to America under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), with Zimbabwe and Gambia being notable sub-Saharan African pariahs from the move.The thirty five states singled out for preferential tariffs are: Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, ...
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