{"id":28786,"date":"2026-03-09T03:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/despite-agoa-extension-why-is-kenya-not-celebrating-just-yet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:43:53","slug":"despite-agoa-extension-why-is-kenya-not-celebrating-just-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/despite-agoa-extension-why-is-kenya-not-celebrating-just-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite AGOA extension, why is Kenya not celebrating just yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/308\/shutterstock-2000506046_320432.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>For Kenya, the arrangement has been transformative. More than <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent of its exports to the US are apparel, much of it stitched in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and destined for renowned brands such as Calvin Klein, H&amp;M, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, in recent months, uncertainty cast a long shadow over the factory floors from Nairobi to Mombasa. As questions swirled over whether AGOA would be renewed, investors began to pull back. Media reports spoke of scaled-down operations, frozen hiring and workers shifted to short-term contracts.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n        <ph name=\"Courtsey\"\/>&#13;\n    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/despite-agoa-extension-why-is-kenya-not-celebrating-just-yet--308844-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Kenya, the arrangement has been transformative. More than ** per cent of its exports to the US are apparel, much of it stitched in Export Processing Zones (EPZs) and destined for renowned brands such as Calvin Klein, H&amp;M, Tommy Hilfiger, etc. However, in recent months, uncertainty cast a long shadow over the factory floors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}