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Oct 31, 2023 · Add to myFT. US strikes four African countries off preferential trade list. Uganda, Gabon, CAR and Niger penalised for human rights violations and lack of democratic progress. Niger’s...
List of Eligible Countries | United States Trade Representative. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Issue Areas.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa. It includes fully recognised states, states with limited or zero recognition, and dependent territories of both African and non-African states. It lists 56 sovereign states (54 of which are member states of the United Nations ), two non-sovereign (dependent) territories of ...
The African Continental Free Trade Area ( AfCFTA) [11] is a free trade area encompassing most of Africa. [12] [13] [14] It was established in 2018 by the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, which has 43 parties and another 11 signatories, making it the largest free-trade area by number of member states, after the World Trade Organization ...
- May 30, 2019; 4 years ago
- Kigali, Rwanda
- March 21, 2018
- Free-trade area
Nov 1, 2023 · The US will terminate Uganda, Gabon, Niger, and the Central African Republic from a special US-Africa trade programme as they have either not taken measures to curb human rights violations or...
Jan 2, 2022 · In 2020, 38 countries were eligible for AGOA. In its Saturday statement, the USTR said Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea may still rejoin the pact if they met the statute’s provisions.
Oct 31, 2023 · 31 October 2023. By Gloria Aradi,BBC News. Getty Images. The US government also removed Burkina Faso, Mali and Guinea from the trade deal last year, after they all underwent coups. US President Joe...
