{"id":167580,"date":"2026-05-19T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/?p=167580"},"modified":"2026-05-19T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:29:29","slug":"what-is-agoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/stories\/what-is-agoa\/","title":{"rendered":"What is AGOA? Why Congress must renew it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You&#8217;ve&nbsp;probably never&nbsp;heard of&nbsp;AGOA.&nbsp;But&nbsp;some&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;clothing, car parts,&nbsp;maybe even&nbsp;a specialty food&nbsp;product&nbsp;in your shopping cart, got to you because of it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AGOA stands for the African Growth and Opportunity Act.&nbsp;It&#8217;s&nbsp;a US trade law that allows goods made in eligible&nbsp;African&nbsp;countries&nbsp;to enter the United States without&nbsp;import taxes known as&nbsp;tariffs&nbsp;(also called duty-free access). For 26 years,&nbsp;AGOA has helped&nbsp;strengthen commercial ties between the US and African countries,&nbsp;benefiting&nbsp;workers and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it expires&nbsp;on December 31, 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-so-nbsp-what-does-agoa-actually-do-nbsp\"><strong>So&nbsp;what does AGOA actually do?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of it this way: Madagascar produces&nbsp;roughly 80%&nbsp;of the world&#8217;s vanilla. That vanilla ends up in the extract on your shelf, the ice cream in your freezer, and the chocolate chip cookies you pull out of the oven. Under AGOA, it enters the US without&nbsp;tariffs, helping to&nbsp;keep costs lower for American food companies and for you at the grocery store.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The same principle applies to clothing made in Ethiopia, auto parts from South Africa, or cut flowers from Kenya. AGOA removes tariffs for qualifying African countries,&nbsp;lowering costs for American importers and consumers while creating jobs and economic opportunity across the continent. And&nbsp;it&#8217;s&nbsp;not a one-way street; US exports to AGOA countries have grown&nbsp;nearly 300%&nbsp;since the program began, supporting an estimated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/emissary\/2026\/01\/agoa-renewal-africa-us-trade-tariffs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100,000<\/a>&nbsp;American jobs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-why-does-it-need-to-be-reauthorized-nbsp\"><strong>Why does it need to be reauthorized?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many laws, AGOA&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t&nbsp;last forever automatically. Congress built&nbsp;in&nbsp;an expiration date, which means lawmakers have&nbsp;to&nbsp;vote&nbsp;to&nbsp;renew&nbsp;it. Without that vote, the law simply&nbsp;stops,&nbsp;and all those&nbsp;duty-free trade benefits disappear&nbsp;immediately.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-one-and-its-partners-are-doing-about-it-nbsp\"><strong>What ONE and its partners are doing about it<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 13, ONE organized a Hill Day in partnership with the African Diaspora Network (ADN), bringing 22 advocates to Capitol Hill to urge Congress to extend and strengthen AGOA before it expires. The group held 18 in-depth meetings with senior staff from every major committee with&nbsp;jurisdiction, and&nbsp;met personally with Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), a&nbsp;member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Foreign Affairs&nbsp;Chairman&nbsp;Emeritus Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Rep. 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Factories&nbsp;and businesses&nbsp;in Africa that rely on US market access would face sudden new costs,&nbsp;disrupting trade relationships that&nbsp;benefit&nbsp;both sides. American consumers and businesses would face higher costs for&nbsp;everyday&nbsp;goods.&nbsp;While&nbsp;African workers, including women&nbsp;in the textile and agriculture sectors,&nbsp;would lose&nbsp;their&nbsp;jobs. And the US would lose a powerful, low-cost tool for building&nbsp;economic&nbsp;partnerships with a continent of 1.4 billion people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More broadly, letting AGOA lapse sends a message: that the United States&nbsp;isn&#8217;t&nbsp;a reliable long-term partner. At a time when&nbsp;strategic competitors, like China&nbsp;are actively competing&nbsp;and expanding&nbsp;their&nbsp;influence&nbsp;in Africa,&nbsp;that&#8217;s&nbsp;a costly signal to send.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-bottom-line-nbsp\"><strong>The bottom line<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>AGOA is one of those rare policies that\u00a0earns\u00a0support across party lines because it works.\u00a0We brought this message to Capitol Hill, now help us take it one step further.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/act.one.org\/letter\/email-congress-agoa-2026-us_gen\/\">Tell Congress to\u00a0renew AGOA before December 31.<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"buffer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve&nbsp;probably never&nbsp;heard of&nbsp;AGOA.&nbsp;But&nbsp;some&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;clothing, car parts,&nbsp;maybe even&nbsp;a specialty food&nbsp;product&nbsp;in your shopping cart, got to you because of it.&nbsp; AGOA stands for the African Growth and Opportunity Act.&nbsp;It&#8217;s&nbsp;a US trade law that allows goods made in eligible&nbsp;African&nbsp;countries&nbsp;to enter the United States without&nbsp;import taxes known as&nbsp;tariffs&nbsp;(also called duty-free access). 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