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Madagascar - National AGOA Strategy 2022-2025
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...
Madagascar - National AGOA Strategy 2022-2025 (french version)
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...
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....
Botswana - UPDATED National AGOA Strategy (2021)
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 - National AGOA Strategy
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...
Sierra Leone - National AGOA 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,...
Malawi - National AGOA Strategy
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...
Lesotho - UPDATED National AGOA Strategy
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,...
Kenya - National AGOA Strategy 2018-2023
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...
Zambia - UPDATED National AGOA Strategy 2018-2025
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.
Mozambique - National AGOA Strategy
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,...
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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.
Ghana - National AGOA Strategy
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...
Lesotho - National AGOA Strategy (updated version below)
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...
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Namibia: Trade ministry and USAID TradeHub bring AGOA capacity building into focus
Last year, Namibia launched its AGOA Utilisation Strategy with the objective of diversifying and increasing its exports to the United States of America under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). The strategy chiefly seeks to assist Namibia to develop its competitiveness in utilising the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) that provides eligible countries with duty free access to the lucrative USA market. Now, Namibia...
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Namibia launches AGOA strategy to increase tariff-free exports to the United States
Today, U.S. Ambassador Lisa Johnson joined Minister of Industrialisation and Trade Lucia Iipumbu to officially launch Namibia’s African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Utilization Strategy. The strategy seeks to increase Namibia’s exports under the AGOA program, which allows Namibia to export over 6,400 products tariff-free to the United States. This joint effort to develop the AGOA strategy is part of the United States’ efforts to...
11 May 2021
US and Botswana MITI launch revised AGOA Utilization Strategy to improve economic growth in Botswana
On April 29, the Embassy of the United States of America joined the Ministry of Investment, Trade, and Industry (MITI) and other stakeholders to launch the revised strategy (see link to download) at the Hilton Garden Inn in Gaborone. U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, Craig L. Cloud, joined Minister Mmusi Kgafela to formally launch the strategy. Also present were the USAID Representative to Botswana, Ms....
03 May 2021
Uganda: Government working on new AGOA strategy
Uganda will, before the end of April, reportedly launch a national strategy that will identify key products that Uganda can leverage on to improve its exports to US. The strategy, whose formulation started in 2016, seeks to among others, identify five key products that can influence Uganda’s penetration into the US market. Ms Suzan Muhwezi, the head of Agoa Secretariat, said the strategy has already been tabled before...
15 April 2019
Sierra Leone to launch its AGOA response strategy
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), an initiative of the United States Government, allows low-income countries to access the US market on very favourable trade terms. The implementation of the new AGOA Strategy will allow Sierra Leone to benefit from duty free access to US markets when exporting products produced in the country. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) in collaboration with the International Growth...
11 February 2019
New Ethiopia AGOA strategy in full swing
The USAID Hub’s lead African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) strategy consultant is in Ethiopia this week to gather supply-side information and conduct a sector analysis for a new Ethiopia National AGOA Strategy. The Ethiopian government requested the Hub to provide technical assistance on the Strategy, which will set strategic actions and targets for significant growth in exports from Ethiopia to the United States by 2025. The Hub began...
17 January 2019
USAID supports Kenya’s AGOA strategy to double duty-free exports by 2023
Kenya’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives has launched the Kenya National African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Strategy and Action Plan (2018-2023) alongside Kenya’s National Export Development and Promotion Strategy. The new National AGOA Strategy outlines actions for priority sectors to increase the country’s exports to the U.S. by 10.4 percent annually. In 2017, Kenya exported goods worth $572 million to the...
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Kenya: New national export strategy seeks to grow exports to KSh 1.3t by 2022
The Cabinet Secretary for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives Hon. Peter Munya has lauded the 2nd Kenya Trade Week and Exposition forum at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). Speaking at the opening ceremony on Monday, the CS lauded the forum for bringing together both private and public sector players to chat ways of bridging Kenya’s imports and exports gap. He emphasised the importance of Buy Kenya, Build Kenya which aims...
31 July 2018
The United States supports increased trade with Mozambique through AGOA
The Ministry of Industry and Commerce launched today Mozambique’s AGOA Utilization Strategy. Designed to increase trade and economic growth throughout Africa, the Strategy will help ensure Mozambican businesses are better positioned to use AGOA for duty free access to the U.S. market for more than 6,500 products. Although AGOA was enacted in the year 2000, only $1 million of the $100 million of Mozambican exports into the United...
16 May 2018
Kenya develops new AGOA strategy
Kenya will have an advantage of increasing its exports to the United States when direct flights between the two countries begin in October this year. Principal Secretary State Department of Trade Dr. Chris Kiptoo said that Kenya, which is leading in Sub-Sahara exports, considers the US as a strategic market that it is ranked number three in terms of an export destination for Kenyan goods. He was addressing delegates in export business who...
19 January 2018
Kenya: TradeHub conducts national AGOA Strategy review workshops
From November 22-23, the Hub collaborated with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives to conduct stakeholder workshops on home décor and fashion accessories, textile and apparel, and coffee. Participants discussed the supply constraints that can hinder exports and developed sector action plans to mitigate those constraints. They also refined the Hub-supported end-market analysis draft reports designed to help Kenyan businesses...
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