The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act Forum will be held in Lusaka Zambia from June 6-10, 2011.05.18 The AGOA program was a good initiative but I think it has not lived up to its expectations.
First of all, if the United States wanted to assist Africa genuinely, I don’t think they will have complicated and impossible to meet Rules of Origin.
It is irritating for a producer to have to undergo at least 20 procedures before their product could be certified fit for the US market.
Come on Africans, we have market in our back yard; we have a bigger market in COMESA-EAC-SADC grant Free Trade Area (FTA).
We don’t have to prove to anyone that our fish is from good and pollution free rivers, we don’t have to suffer humiliating questions about what type of grass our cattle grazes on.
We can trade with ourselves because we respect each other, no one should make us feel small or inferior. Africa is powerful!!!
