USTR Report Explores Trade Arrangements With Post-AGOA Africa

A report issued by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in conjunction with the 2016 U.S.-Africa Business Forum lays out key facets and likely evolutions of the U.S. trade relationship with African countries after the unilateral preference arrangement laid out in the African Growth and Opportunity Act expires or is outgrown. AGOA is likely to expire in 2025, which “provides, at once, a sense of urgency for the development of a new trade and investment framework and, for now,...