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African Growth and Opportunity Act

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Young African girl holds and reads book in class as other students watch.The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law on May 18, 2000 as Title 1 of The Trade and Development Act of 2000. The Act offers tangible incentives for African countries to continue their efforts to open their economies and build free markets.

 

 

African women at an open air market look through layers of brightly colored printed fabrics.The Eighth AGOA Forum is being held in Nairobi, Kenya August 4-6, 2009

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Secretary Clinton At the Corporate Council on Africa's Seventh Biennial U.S.-Africa Business Summit
(Oct. 1): "We are Africa’s largest trading partner, and at the AGOA conference in Nairobi, I said the United States would work to maximize the opportunities created by trade preference programs like AGOA."  Full Text

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