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Shifting Focus on Labor and Environmental Standards to Companies Instead of Countries Would Supercharge AGOA
Last week, government officials from sub-Saharan Africa were in Washington, DC to discuss the future of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a trade program that gives 32 countries tariff-free market access to the US on some 1,800 products. AGOA …