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The Minister of Trade, Industry, and Business Development, Mokhethi Shelile<\/strong>, has stressed that the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is not a charitable favour from the United States but a mutually beneficial trade framework.<\/em><\/p>\n His strong remarks come after a recent high-level lobbying mission to Washington D.C., where he engaged with members of the US Congress, the Ways and Means Committee, and the Finance Committee to push for AGOA’s renewal beyond its expiry earlier this week.<\/em><\/p>\n Mr Shelile…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Minister of Trade, Industry, and Business Development, Mokhethi Shelile, has stressed that the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is not a charitable favour from the United States but a mutually beneficial trade framework. His strong remarks come after a recent high-level lobbying mission to Washington D.C., where he engaged with members of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6245,8640,24897,4717,1407,257,49541,254],"class_list":["post-208815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agoa","tag-charitable","tag-favour","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-shelile","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208815","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=208815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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