{"id":208284,"date":"2025-09-26T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-agoa-likely-to-be-renewed-for-one-year-says-lesotho-trade-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T19:13:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T17:13:55","slug":"africa-agoa-likely-to-be-renewed-for-one-year-says-lesotho-trade-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/africa-agoa-likely-to-be-renewed-for-one-year-says-lesotho-trade-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: AGOA Likely to Be Renewed for One Year, Says Lesotho Trade Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em> African Growth and Opportunity Act has previously been renewed for a decade at a time <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is likely to be renewed for one year, Lesotho&#8217;s trade minister Mohkheti Shelile told reporters on Wednesday. AGOA has previously been renewed for a decade at a time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">AGOA has, since 2001, enabled duty-free exports from Lesotho to the US. Garments make up 80% of Lesotho&#8217;s exports to the US, which accounts for roughly 20% of the country&#8217;s total exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Earlier this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260322.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Growth and Opportunity Act has previously been renewed for a decade at a time The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is likely to be renewed for one year, Lesotho&#8217;s trade minister Mohkheti Shelile told reporters on Wednesday. AGOA has previously been renewed for a decade at a time. AGOA has, since 2001, enabled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671512:c11aee1133f4a9acf8174a4c316f9348:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6245,4717,1407,5941,257,6391,254,5979,6537],"class_list":["post-208284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agoa","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-renewed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671512:c11aee1133f4a9acf8174a4c316f9348:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}