{"id":12535,"date":"2023-04-06T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T22:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/international-trade-between-united-states-and-sub-saharan-africa-agowa-agreement\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T22:11:30","slug":"international-trade-between-united-states-and-sub-saharan-africa-agowa-agreement","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/international-trade-between-united-states-and-sub-saharan-africa-agowa-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"International Trade Between United States and Sub-Saharan Africa (AGOWA Agreement)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) GSP Program Info &amp; Eligibility cont:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>https:\/\/agoa.info\/about-agoa.html\n<\/div>\n<div>AGOA builds on existing US trade programs by expanding the (duty-free) benefits previously available only under the country\u2019s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) program.\n<\/div>\n<div>In order to qualify and remain eligible for AGOA, each country must be working to improve its rule of law, human rights, and respect for core labor standards.\n<\/div>\n<div>After completing its initial 15 year period of validity, the AGOA legislation was extended on 29 June 2015 by a further 10 years, to 2025\n<\/div>\n<div>Total two-way goods trade between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa increased 5.8%, from $36.9 billion in 2015 to $39 billion in 2017\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>2)Title 19, Chapter 23 Code:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?path=\/prelim@title19\/chapter23&amp;edition=prelim\n<\/div>\n<div>provides a preview of Title 19, Chapter 23 of the United States Code, which is titled &#8220;United States-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation&#8221;.\n<\/div>\n<div>outlines the provisions of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which is a trade agreement between the United States and eligible Sub-Saharan African countries.\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;it is in the mutual interest of the United States and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa to promote stable and sustainable economic growth and development in sub-Saharan Africa\n<\/div>\n<div>despite those gains, the per capita income in sub-Saharan Africa averages approximately $500 annually\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>what are GSP program info and eligibility cont? and what title 19, chpater 23 code?<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) GSP Program Info &amp; Eligibility cont:&nbsp; https:\/\/agoa.info\/about-agoa.html AGOA builds on existing US trade programs by expanding the (duty-free) benefits previously available only under the country\u2019s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) program. In order to qualify and remain eligible for AGOA, each country must be working to improve its rule of law, human rights, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[185],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/12535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=12535"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=12535"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=12535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}