The US said last week it was cutting Uganda as well as the Central African Republic (CAR), Gabon and Niger from the AGOA from January 2024.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni speaks during a Reuters interview at his farm in Kisozi settlement of Gomba district, in the Central Region of Uganda, January 16, 2022. Picture taken January 16, 2022. REUTERS
The programme offers duty-free access into the world’s largest economy for sub-Saharan African countries that meet democratic criteria, which are assessed on a yearly basis. But President Yoweri Museveni struck a defiant note on Sunday, telling Ugandans “not to be over-concerned by the recent actions by the American government in discouraging their companies from investing in Uganda and on removing Uganda from the AGOA list”.“Some of these actors in the Western world overestimate themselves and underestimate the freedom fighters of Africa,” he said on X, formerly Twitter.
“While Ugandan trade through AGOA was insubstantial, growth of our exports to the US and other partners was an important pillar of our economic strategy going forward,” Rwabwogo said in a statement released on Wednesday.
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