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On trade there will be a lot of uncertainty around the future of the Africa Growth Opportunity Act and US-Africa trade relations in general.
Even if AGOA gets reauthorized, will African countries be exempt from the wide-ranging tariffs that President Trump plans to impose on all imports into the US?
I’m perhaps a bit more optimistic that the Lobito Corridor project’s bipartisan support could help ensure its survival. Its discontinuation, as the major flagship infrastructure project supported by the US in decades, would be damaging to US efforts to counter China in the infrastructure investment business in Africa and the Global South
Zainab Usman, director of the Africa Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC
