DESPITE AGOA, AFRICAN APPAREL AND TEXTILE MANUFACTURERS LOSING OUT TO FOREIGN COMPANIES
August 1st, 2013
BARACK Obama seems ready to accept an extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) for another 15 years before it expires in 2015, but sub-Saharan African textile manufacturers might have mixed feelings.African ambassadors in Washington DC have been under strict instructions from their governments to lobby the United States Congress to renew the law, forming an ambassadors’ AGOA working group led by Ethiopian ambassador Girma Birru.And during President Obama's tour of several African countries in June, he urged the US Congress “to renew and ...
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