Market Access under AGOA: Still Room for Improvement

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Market Access under AGOA Still Room for
Improvement

• Viji Rangaswami
• Trade, Equity and Development Project
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• vrangaswami_at_carnegieendowment.org
• AGOA Civil Society Forum June 6, 2006

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AGOAs Key Innovations

• Create a Trade and Investment Relationship
• Provide SSA Countries With Better Access
• Greater Certainty
• More Products
• Focus on Apparel
• Link Market Access With Capacity Building

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AGOAs Track Record

• Trade and Investment
• Positive On-going dialogue Increase in TIFAs
• Negative US-SACU FTA Negotiations Downgraded

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AGOAs Track Record

• Better Market Access
• Positive 1800 Additional Products Eligible for
  Duty-free Treatment
• Positive Increased Exports
• Negative Key products Still Excluded
• Negative Oil Dominance
• Mixed Apparel

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Better Market Access
Source USITC Dataweb.
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Better Market Access
Source ITC Dataweb tariff data from UNCTAD
TRAINS and USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
2005 exports of 2005 eligible AGOA countries to
US. AGOA and GSP data civil aircraft and
pharmaceutical preference programs (15 million
in 2005).
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Better Market Access
Source ITC Dataweb.
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Better Market Access
Source ITC Dataweb. Exports to US of AGOA
countries eligible in 2001 under AGOA program
through 2005. Excludes HS 27.
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Better Market Access
Source ITC Dataweb. Exports to US of AGOA
countries eligible in 2001 under AGOA program
through 2005. Categories HS 61-63.
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AGOAs Track Record

• Market Access and Capacity Building
• Positive Hubs
• Negative Funding

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Market Access and Capacity Building
Source USAID Trade Capacity Building Database.
Total funding from all US agencies to AGOA
countries in 2005.
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Market Access and Capacity Building

• 2005 TCB funding for Sub-Saharan Africa

150,551,263
- TCB funding for Madagascar (58,306,463)
92,244,800
/ The other 36 AGOA countries
2,562,356 per country
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AGOAs Track Record

• Trade and Investment
• On-going dialogue increase in TIFAs
• - US-SACU FTA negotiations downgraded
• Better Market Access
• 1800 additional products eligible for duty-free
• Increased Exports
• Key products still excluded
• Oil Dominance
• /- Apparel
• Link Market Access and Capacity Building
• Hubs
• Money