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Terms and Contitions
INTRODUCTION
These terms and conditions become effective when you access our website for
the first time and constitute a binding agreement between Tralac and
yourself, which will always prevail.
The services offered by this website (www.agoa.info) are provided to you
free of charge: on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Tralac uses its best
efforts to maintain the quality of its services, but you should not assume
that the site is error-free or that it will be suitable for the particular
purpose which you have in mind when using it.
The information, ideas and opinions expressed on this site are of a general
nature and should not be regarded as professional advice. Prior to taking
any action based on, or in relation to, information, ideas and opinions
expressed on this site you need to obtain professional advise appropriate to
your planned action.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND DISCLAIMERS
Tralac shall not be held responsible for any injury, loss, expense or damage
of any kind whatsoever suffered or incurred by you as a result of the
accessing this website, utilising any service offered on this website or
relying on any information contained on this website for any reason
whatsoever including but not limited to any injury, loss or damage suffered
as a result of:
- errors or discrepancies in the information provided;
- any unauthorised access or amendment of this website by third parties;
- any breakdown or failure of any equipment or medium of access to this
website;
- any failure or unavailability of this website or any third parties'
facilities or systems resulting in the inability to access this website or
process any transaction referred to or offered on this website;
- the destruction or accessing of your data or equipment, or the data or
equipment belonging to any third used by you to access the site; or
- any alteration, modification, upgrade or update of this website or any
technology, hardware or software modification that may form part of this
website.
You hereby indemnify Tralac against any demand, claim or action for either
direct-, indirect-, punitive- or consequential damages or order against
Tralac relating to or in connection with your use or accessing of this
website whether such demand, claim or action was caused directly or
indirectly for any reason whatsoever.
Tralac reserves the right in its absolute discretion to alter, modify,
upgrade, update, suspend or withdraw this website or any part hereof at any
time.
You are entirely responsible for all content that you access, upload, post,
email or otherwise transmit via Tralac. We are not liable for loss of any
content you transmit and you should keep a backup copy of all such content.
PRIVACY
You give Tralac permission to collect and use your personal information when
you use the website. Tralac uses your personal information only for internal
purposes like improving the functionality of the site, keeping a database of
users and maintaining a record of your access to the site.
Tralac will not share your personal information with any third party without
first obtaining your consent, unless Tralac is ordered by a court of law to
do so.
You consent that Tralac may share your personal information with
sub-contractors for purposes of management and administration of our website
and newsletter.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
We retain all copyright and other intellectual property rights in all
material, including logos and other graphics and multimedia works published
on or via the site. You are authorised to view and download one copy to a
local hard drive or disk, print and make copies of such printouts, provided
that:
- the material is for personal use to consider the use of the online
services and not for any commercial purposes;
- any reproduction of our proprietary material from this site or portion
of it must include our copyright notice in its entirety.
The logos and trademarks shown on this site are our registered and
unregistered trademarks or that of third parties. Nothing on this site
should be construed as granting any licence or right to use any trademark
without our prior written permission and/or that of third parties, as the
case may be. You may not, without our prior written permission, use our
intellectual property or that of third parties for any other purposes.
An application to use our intellectual property must be submitted to
webmaster@tralac.org. Upon receiving your application we will do our best to
respond and enter into further discussions with you. If you don't get a
written response from us within five business days, consider your request as
having been rejected.
If you submit any content to this website, you grant by the submission of
such content a transferable, perpetual, world wide and royalty free license
to use the content in any manner whatsoever. If the intellectual property
rights of any content submitted by yourself is owned by a third party, you
undertake to notify Tralac immediately of the situation and you indemnify
TRALAC upon submission against any claims that such third party may bring
against Tralac for the use of third party content submitted to the website
by yourself.
PERMISSION TO LINK TO OUR SITE
Nobody may establish a hyperlink, frame, metatag or similar reference,
whether electronically or otherwise (collectively referred to as linking),
to this site or any subsidiary pages before receiving our prior written
approval, which may be withheld or granted subject to the conditions we
specify from time to time.
An application for linking must be submitted to webmaster@tralac.org. Once
received we will do our best to respond and enter into further discussions
with you. If you don't get a written response from us within five business
days, consider your request as having been rejected.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
The website contains links to other websites with information and material
produced by other parties. While we endeavour to provide links only to
reputable websites, we cannot accept responsibility or liability for the
information provided on other websites. A link from our site to any other
website does not mean that we have scrutinised or endorsed the owners or
administrators of the websites or their business or security practices and
operations
GENERAL MATTERS
We may amend these conditions from time to time. By accessing this site you
are bound to the version of the conditions published here at the time of any
visit to this site. You agree to view the current version each time you
access the site.
A certificate signed by the administrator responsible for maintaining this
site will be prima facie proof of the date of publication and content of the
current version and all previous versions of the conditions.
Nothing on this site should be treated as an offer but merely as an
invitation to do business with us.
The laws of the Republic of South Africa applies to these terms and
conditions as well as the relation between yourself and Tralac as far as it
concerns the use of our website or any matter that may arise from such use.
Breach of these conditions entitles us to take legal action without prior
notice to you and you agree to reimburse the costs associated with such
legal action to us on an attorney and own client scale.
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Latest Updates
 
AGOA Forum 2010: The 2010 AGOA Forum is currently underway. For program details, click on the following links: Ministerial Program, Civil Society Program and the Civil Society Forum Panel Description.
JULY 2010: All data has been updated to include May 2010 data.
December 2009: Madagascar, Niger and Guinea lose AGOA eligibility end 2009; Mauritania regains AGOA status.
News story at this link
ITC investigation of textiles and apparel: Further details at this link
AGOA IV – Changes to AGOA explained
For disaggregated trade data covering each AGOA country, follow the relevant link in the Country Sections (left column) or click here.
 For detailed AGOA maps click here
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