Namibia - National AGOA Strategy
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. and sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries.
To that end, the Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT) of Namibia requested the USAID Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub (USAID TradeHub) to facilitate the development of a National AGOA Utilization Strategy for Namibia.
The strategy focuses on diversifying and increasing Namibia’s exports to the U.S. under AGOA. One of the reasons why Namibia has not taken advantage of the AGOA Preference Program more effectively is due to the lack of a National AGOA Utilization Strategy that would position some of the country’s industry sectors to enter and establish a market presence in the United States.