USTR Seeks Comments on AGOA Eligibility
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking comments, requests to testify and written testimony on which countries should be included in the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Comments are due June 6, ahead of a June 27 hearing,…
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at regulations.gov, docket number USTR-2024-0006. Parties may ask for the removal of any of the 32 countries currently covered by the AGOA trade preference, or argue for the reinstatement of countries that have been removed from the program, or have never been part of it, such as Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda or Zimbabwe.