AGOA PROGRAMME KEEPS AFRICAN TEXTILES AFLOAT 10 YEARS LATER
April 1st, 2010
BY ALISON MOODIE
SUB-SAHARAN Africa is still struggling to make its way in the global textile and clothing industry - but companies are convinced that without the USA's African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) the outlook would be bleaker. One decade ago this May, this tariff preference programme was launched by the US: it gives qualifying African countries zero tariff exports for the huge US market - and statistics show that the sub-Saharan textile and clothing industry has benefited. Since 2002, there's been a slow but steady increase of AGOA textile and ...
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