Washington, DC — The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Civil Society Organization Network, secretariat announced today, that Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas Greenfield will give the keynote address at the opening ceremony of the two days civil society organization session of the 13th AGOA forum, on Friday 1, August 2014 at the FHI-360 Conference Center in Washington DC. The theme for this year’s session is “AGOA: Re authorization beyond 2015.”
AGOA, signed into law in 2000, has remained the cornerstone of U.S. trade policy with sub-Saharan Africa over the past fifteen year. Currently, 40 sub-Saharan countries are eligible to benefit from AGOA’s unilateral trade preference regime, which provides reforming African countries with the most liberal access to the U.S. markets. AGOA supports U.S. businesses by encouraging reforms of Africa’s economic and commercial regimes, building stronger markets and more effective partners for U.S. firms.
...