AGOA countries urge US to relax rules

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The 10th African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum that ended June 11 in Lusaka, Zambia drew a number of recommendations, chief among them urging the United States to relax its restrictive rules of origin in order to promote diversification of exports in to the US and support regional integration through regional value chains.

The forum, at which Botswana was represented by Assistant Minister of Trade and Industry, Vincent Seretse, also urged the US to expand the AGOA product list in order to further help diversify non-oil exports.

Moreover, the US was urged to take into consideration the risk of eroding the AGOA preference margins in its future preference schemes with other Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and developing countries.

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