What does AGOA stand for?

government officials, sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) textile and apparel industry has not achieved the growth anticipated under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).

The US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is due to expire in 2015, and some African countries would like that extended as the deadline causes uncertainty among potential investors.

President Barack Obama has sent video message on Wednesday to the eighth African Growth and Opportunity Act Forum (AGOA).

She will lead a forum on development as part of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, legislation passed during the Bush administration that was intended to spur trade between the U.

Liser also points to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which provides trade preferences for quota and duty-free entry of certain African goods entering the United States.

As a result of the proposed amendments, Part 102 rules would be used to determine whether a good meets the "product of" criterion for receiving duty preference under a broad group of programs covering insular possessions, West Bank, Gaza Strip or qualifying industrial zones, Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), Freely Associated States, Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA), African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), U.

The knighthood acknowledges McDermott's leadership on the African Growth and Opportunity Act, also known as AGOA, which has enabled Lesotho to become a top African exporter of apparel to the United States.

He states that the US's African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) allows the export to the US of goods duty-free, but that "Zimbabwe does not enjoy any preferential trade under Agoa".