A bill sponsored by Republican Jim Risch and Democrat Chris Coons had promised to expand AGOA's scope linking it with the African Continental Free Trade Agreement...
But a bipartisan bill sponsored by Republican Jim Risch and Democrat Chris Coons seeks to extend it until 2041 has been making slow progress...
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United States senators are hoping to take US/Africa trade policy out of party politics in an election year with Republican Jim Risch and Democrat Chris Coons having tabled a bill that would extend duty-free access to the US market under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) until 2041...
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Vol 64 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
On 9 June a bipartisan group of US lawmakers – including Republican senator Jim Risch of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Democrat representative Gregory Meeks and Republican representative Michael McCaul both of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking to move November's scheduled annual meeting of AGOA member countries away from South Africa...
On 15 May the two top lawmakers on the Senate's foreign relations panel on Sudan called on the Biden Administration to appoint a new envoy for Sudan: Democrat Senator Bob Menendez and Republican James Risch also called for new direction to US-Sudan policy...
The plan by President Joe Biden's administration to convene an African leaders' summit focusing on food security and climate on 13-15 December was 'long overdue' according to Senator Jim Risch a Republican and senior member of the Foreign Affairs Committee...
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In a letter to United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 4 March US Senators Cory Booker and James Risch gave Blinken a 31 March deadline to present a detailed analysis of US-Uganda relations and the risks it may pose to US interests...
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