Global Trade Alert
Global Trade Alert

United States of America: Suspension of Rwanda’s apparel trade preferences in a dispute over used clothing

Announcement

29 Mar 2018

Rwanda’s apparel trade preference benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act have been suspended for failing to make sufficient progress toward the elimination of barriers to U.S. trade and investment.

 

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Number of interventions

1

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

29 May 2018

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Updated: 29 Mar 2018
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On March 29, 2018 President Trump suspended Rwanda’s trade preference benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). That decision is based upon a determination that the countr...

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