The United States will suspend its trade preferences to four African countries due to military coups and human rights violations.
The United States says it will halt its trade preferences to four African countries in January after a recent wave of military coups and human-rights violations in the continent., is among the four countries to lose their U.S. trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA .who were implicated in the torture and killing of civilians, is another of the countries losing benefits. The other two are Gabon and Niger , where governments were overthrown by military coups this year.
The AGOA program, created in 2000, allows duty-free access to the U.S. market for more than 1,800 goods from countries that are eligible for the benefits. To maintain their eligibility, their governments are required to meet minimum standards of human rights and progress toward democracy. But after recent efforts to patch up relations, it appears that South Africa will remain in the program. South Africa exported about $15-billion in goods to the United States last year, of which about 21 per cent entered the U.S. under AGOA’s terms. Its textile and auto industries have been key beneficiaries of the program.
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