African manufacturers in last-ditch bid to extend US trade programme
Pankaj Bedi, Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) Apparel Exports Sub-Sector chairman, interacts with Kenyan workers as they prepare clothes for export at the United Aryan Export Processing Zone (EPZ) factory operating under the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), in Ruaraka district of Nairobi, Kenya, April 9.
U.S. President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policies have cast doubt on the prospects for renewal of the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA) trade initiative, which was passed in 2000 under former President Bill Clinton to provide duty-free access to the U.S. market for thousands of products.
