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African manufacturers in last-ditch bid to extend Agoa
Pankaj Bedi, chairman of the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) Apparel Exports Sub-Sector, interacts with workers preparing clothes for export at the United Aryan EPZ factory in Nairobi, Kenya, April 9, 2025. The factory operates under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
African manufacturers are lobbying US Congress to grant a last-ditch extension of one or two years to a duty-free trade programme due to expire at the end of September, a Kenyan factory owner involved in the campaign told Reuters.
US President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policies have cast doubt on the prospects for renewal of the African Growth and Opportunities Act (Agoa) trade initiative, which was passed in 2000 under former President Bill Clinton to provide duty-free access to the US market for thousands of products.
