Senate committee approves AGOA amendments

Africa

Thursday, July 19, 2012

The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday passed legislation that makes certain improvements and amendments to the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), America’s trade preference program for sub-Saharan Africa, and the Central America – Dominican Republic – U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The move follows an announcement by Congress on June 21 of an agreement to renew AGOA’s third country fabric provision and make technical changes needed to CAFTA-DR. &n...

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