Biden Cuts Three African Nations from AGOA

President Biden said Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea will be terminated from the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade preference program. — Captured Ethiopian government soldiers and allied militia members sit in rows after being paraded by Tigray forces through the streets in open-top trucks, as they arrived to be taken to a detention center in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on Oct. 22, 2021.

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President Biden on Tuesday announced that three countries will be terminated from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade preference program as of Jan. 1, absent urgent action to meet statutory eligibility criteria. “Our administration is deeply concerned by the unconstitutional change in governments in both Guinea and Mali, and by the gross violations…

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