Disir
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African affairs are as low on his agenda as one can conceivably imagine. Not knowing the name of 'Nambia' in September 2017, as he called it twice at a meeting with AU members, and referring to African states as 'shithole countries'(which he denied) this year, is a clear indication of the complete lack of knowledge or care for anything African by the incumbent in the White House.
But when we look at trade, it is where we see how much will be changed by president Trump's policy of 'America first'. President Bill Clinton spent years having the African Growth and Opportunity (Agoa) Act passed through the US Congress, and it will continue to 2025.
This gave duty-free market access to goods coming from African countries that the US liked. It is largely meaningless for most African exporters of minerals and oil, which face zero tariffs, but it has been of great use to some countries that have sought to develop industrial capacity for exports.
Trump has used Clinton's Agoa legacy to show his 'America first' teeth with the smallest of African issues and countries. In 2015, the five leaders of the East African Community (Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya) agreed to phase out the imports of second-hand clothing (called mitumba in Swahili) by 2019.
'America First' And The Tragedy Of Africa Second …Hand - The Namibian
A different perspective. It pisses me off that charities resell there as it is.
But when we look at trade, it is where we see how much will be changed by president Trump's policy of 'America first'. President Bill Clinton spent years having the African Growth and Opportunity (Agoa) Act passed through the US Congress, and it will continue to 2025.
This gave duty-free market access to goods coming from African countries that the US liked. It is largely meaningless for most African exporters of minerals and oil, which face zero tariffs, but it has been of great use to some countries that have sought to develop industrial capacity for exports.
Trump has used Clinton's Agoa legacy to show his 'America first' teeth with the smallest of African issues and countries. In 2015, the five leaders of the East African Community (Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya) agreed to phase out the imports of second-hand clothing (called mitumba in Swahili) by 2019.
'America First' And The Tragedy Of Africa Second …Hand - The Namibian
A different perspective. It pisses me off that charities resell there as it is.