African Growth and Opportunity Act

Country / jurisdiction: Mozambique · Year: 2000 · Status: In force · Level: National · Type: Voluntary

The African Growth and Opportunity Act entered into force in October 2020.

It currently provides involved sub-Saharan African country imports with duty-free access to the U.S. market, including for:

Electric motors, turbines and generators;

Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances, and other advanced machinery;

Electric accumulators, transformers, capacitors, batteries;

Motor vehicles;

Mineral ore, slag and ash;

Mineral fuels, oils and other products;

Metals and their articles e.g. iron and steel;

Semiconductors devices and photovoltaic cells;

The following conditions notably apply for products to benefit from preferential tariff treatment:

- products are to be wholly obtained, produced or

-products are to be sufficiently manufactured in an AGOA country (eg. non-originating materials need to have undergone a substantial transformation with at least 35% of the product value added in the AGOA) and

-products must be imported directly from a signatory country.

Official source: https://legacy.trade.gov/agoa/index.asp