During the recently concluded AGOA Forum in Kenya, it was pointed out that Africa still takes too little advantage of the trade facility. That is also the case in Rwanda. Under the AGOA initiative, some 6,400 products can be exported by 41 African countries, but since the launch of the Act in 2000, they export less than 50%, and petroleum products alone account for more than 90% of the $81.4 billion earned from exports to the US. In the EAC,...

01 September 2009