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African Growth and Opportunity Act

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The African Growth and Opportunity Act entered into force in October 2020. 

It currently provides involved sub-Saharan African country imports with duty-free access to the U.S. market, including for:

  • Electric motors, turbines and generators; 
  • Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances, and other advanced machinery; 
  • Electric accumulators, transformers, capacitors, batteries; 
  • Motor vehicles; 
  • Mineral ore, slag and ash; 
  • Mineral fuels, oils and other products; 
  • Metals and their articles e.g. iron and steel; 
  • Semiconductors devices and photovoltaic cells; 


The following conditions notably apply for products to benefit from preferential tariff treatment:
- products are to be wholly obtained, produced or 
-products are to be sufficiently manufactured in an AGOA country (eg. non-originating materials need to have undergone a substantial transformation with at least 35% of the product value added in the AGOA) and
-products must be imported directly from a signatory country.

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