{"id":30318,"date":"2026-07-29T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-african-divide-behind-agoas-14-1-apparel-fall\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T08:59:05","slug":"the-african-divide-behind-agoas-14-1-apparel-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-african-divide-behind-agoas-14-1-apparel-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The African divide behind AGOA&#8217;s 14.1% apparel fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/312\/chatgpt-image-jul-29-4_323738.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h3>\t<strong>Duty-free, but still short of certainty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>AGOA\u2019s legal rescue has not delivered a commercial reset. The programme expired on September <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>, <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>, and was restored in February <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> with retroactive effect, but only until December <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>. In May, the regional apparel programme and third-country-fabric provision were formally extended through the same deadline.<\/p>\n<p>According to TexPro, US imports under HS chapters <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> and <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> from the matched AGOA supplier group fell <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent year on year to $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> million in January\u2013May <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>, from $<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> million. Total US apparel imports declined <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent, leaving the African group underperforming the market by about five percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>USFIA\u2019s separate analysis of OTEXA data produces a closely aligned <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span>.<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent decline. That convergence makes the direction clear: the short renewal preserved preferences but did not trigger a broad recovery in shipments.<\/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\/the-african-divide-behind-agoa-s-14-1-apparel-fall-312161-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duty-free, but still short of certainty AGOA\u2019s legal rescue has not delivered a commercial reset. The programme expired on September **, ****, and was restored in February **** with retroactive effect, but only until December **. In May, the regional apparel programme and third-country-fabric provision were formally extended through the same deadline. According to TexPro,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30318","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\/30318","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=30318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}