Related Keywords: AGOA, associated industries, benchmark, beneficiaries of AGOA, duty free export market, hanging by thread, struck off, Swaziland textile industry, United States
The immediate future of Swaziland’s duty-free export market to the United States (US) through the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is hanging by a thread as Swaziland will be struck off the beneficiaries of AGOA late December, if it fails to meet the benchmarks.
Varying stakeholders from the textile and apparel industry in the country have sent an impassioned request to United States President Barak Obama, to at least give Swaziland a few months more to sort the benchmarks hurdle that resulted in its expulsion from AGOA.
