National AGOA Strategies

The new Madagascar National AGOA Strategy covers all aspects of analysis and design necessary for the formulation of a post-COVID plan and an update of the previous National AGOA Strategy. As such, the Strategy consists of two primary components.  First is an assessment of the COVID-19 impact on Madagascar and AGOA-related sectors.  Second is an update of Madagascar’s AGOA strategy, with the goal of developing a road map for the...

La Stratégie nationale AGOA de Madagascar couvre tous les aspects d’analyse et de conception nécessaires à la formulation d’un plan post-COVID et à une mise à jour de la précédente Stratégie nationale AGOA. À ce titre, la Stratégie comporte deux composantes principales.  L’analyse identifie les chocs de l’offre et de la demande dus à la pandémie ainsi que les politiques publiques mises en oeuvre à Madagascar et sur...

This report contains Namibia’s African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Utilization Strategy. The purpose of the strategy is to provide a comprehensive plan on how Namibia can increase its exports to the United States (U.S.) under the AGOA Preference Program. The AGOA Preference Program is a non-reciprocal unilateral trade arrangement that was established two decades ago in order to promote bilateral trade and investment between the U.S....

The National AGOA Response Strategy provides a key guiding framework on strategic areas of interventions that would allow for Botswana to broaden and deepen its use of the AGOA preference program. This [updated] Strategy, therefore, seeks to ensure that the country remains on course to developing Botswana’s export and manufacturing sectors. As an update to the initial AGOA National Response Strategy that was launched in September 2017, there...

Eswatini has been an AGOA beneficiary since 2001; however, the country was suspended from the program in 2015 and reinstated in 2017. In January 2018, Eswatini’s AGOA benefits were fully restored; hence, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Trade (MCIT), in the spirit of private- and public-sector partnership, is undertaking the development of a national AGOA Utilization Strategy and Action Plan. This National AGOA Utilization Strategy...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is an initiative of the US Government that allows the entry of many products from low income countries into the US Market duty-free. AGOA provides an opportunity for Sierra Leone products to enter the US market without the payment of duty. In order to benefit from this initiative, the Government requested help from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (AGOA) to design a strategy which,...

This document contains a National Response Strategy for Malawi for the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade preference program. This strategy provides a comprehensive plan for increasing exports from Malawi to the United States under the AGOA nonreciprocal unilateral trade preference program and attracting more U.S. investment into Malawi. Although a beneficiary country under AGOA since its inception in May 2000, Malawi has not...

This document contains a National African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Utilization (Response) Strategy for Lesotho. The strategy provides a comprehensive plan to increase exports from Lesotho to the United States under the AGOA nonreciprocal unilateral trade preference program and attract more U.S. investment into Lesotho. A detailed Implementation Plan Matrix of this AGOA Utilization Strategy for Lesotho includes strategic objectives,...

Prepared by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives with support from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) East Africa Trade and Investment Hub. The Kenya National African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Strategy and Action Plan (2018 – 2023) provides strategies and actions for increasing exports to the United States (U.S.) informed by an analysis of identified priority sectors. The overall approach...

This AGOA Response Strategy and Work Plan for Zambia has been prepared to assist policy makers and the private sector to take advantage of opportunities offered by the AGOA facility, while consolidating export capacities at the regional level.

Currently Mozambique has a low level of trade with the U.S. relative to other trading partners. is Strategy is therefore designed to: a.) identify AGOA-eligible sectors and products which Mozambique could export or increase export to the U.S., b.) to provide guidance on increasing the awareness and expertise of AGOA among Mozambique’s relevant public and private stakeholders and c.) to elaborate a set of strategic actions into short-term,...

Operational action plan for the short and medium term use of AGOA 

This document was prepared following a multiple stakeholder consultation process facilitated by the Botswana Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry with assistance from the USAID Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub. The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States Government.

The Ghana Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) has taken the opportunity to develop a new strategic approach for utilizing Ghana’s preferential market access to the United States markets, extended by the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which was renewed last year through 2025 by an act of the United States Congress. The approach has taken on board the advice offered by Brookings Institute, and the United States General...

The Government of Lesotho (GoL) has decided to prepare a National AGOA Response Strategy with the overarching objective of improving and up-scaling the implementation of AGOA and establishing a diversified manufacturing sector in response to the anticipated extension of the existing AGOA agreement. After 13 years of implementation of AGOA, Lesotho has managed to establish one of the largest textile and garment manufacturing industry in...