Introducing African products for sale in the U.S. and in other global markets underscores the essence of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), legislation that provides trade preferences to countries making progress in legal, economic and human rights reforms. In July 2004, President Bush signed into law the AGOA Acceleration Act, which extends duty-free access to the U.S. through 2015 for nearly all products Africans produce and export.
Building on the success of AGOA, the CCA Summit serves as an opportunity to amplify dialogue about the pace of economic growth and development in Africa, just one month before the 2005 AGOA Forum in Dakar, Senegal. The Forum will bring together senior U.S. administration officials, African government ministers and hundreds of U.S. and African business and civil society stakeholders to exchange ideas and information critical to AGOA's continued success.
http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2005/pr050622.html
Amazing. This kind of globalist nonsense would have been denounced by conservatives back in the days when the Great Stainmaker occupied the White House. Today, they just chirp about what a great compassionate guy we have there.
Liberals never case to impress legions of morons with their great "compassion." Few seem to realize that such compassion is always done with other peoples' money - never their own. When it's tax money, it's literally money extorted with the threat of violence. Just try not paying your taxes and see what happens.