House Dems Say AGOA Expiration 'Unacceptable'
House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Rep. Richard Neal. D-Mass., Trade Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Linda Sánchez, D-Calif., and fellow committee member Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., said on Sept. 30 that letting the African Growth and Opportunity Act expire is "a grave mistake."
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"AGOA has expanded trade and investment in Sub-Saharan Africa while promoting job creation and strengthening democratic institutions and worker rights throughout the continent," they wrote. "Allowing AGOA to expire is unacceptable. It has always been renewed on time and never lapsed."
“We call on House Republicans to work with us to find a bipartisan solution to lift the IEEPA tariffs and reauthorize AGOA. AGOA has stood proudly as a beacon of bipartisan success, and it must remain so for many years to come.”