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The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and Its Rules of Origin: Generosity Undermined?

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Devesh Roy
Aaditya Mattoo
Arvind Subramanian

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This paper describes the United States recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. The AGOA expands the scope of preferential access of Africa's exports to the United States in key areas such as clothing. However, its medium term benefits estimated at about US$100-$140 million, an 8 11 percent addition to current non-oil exports would have been nearly five times greater (US$540 million) if no restrictive conditions had been imposed on the terms of market access. The most important of these conditions are the rules of origin with which African exporters of clothing must comply to benefit from duty-free access.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 02/158.

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Date of creation: 30 Sep 2002
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Keywords: Trade restrictions Africa Access to foreign markets

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