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This chapter provides an overview of Africa’s fashion industry, examining the differences between the regions of North and South Africa. It reviews challenges and opportunities for the fashion industry, and the significance of level of development, type of product, and ability to achieve environmental, social and economic sustainability.
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The purpose of AGOA, which was approved by the US Congress in May 2000 and has been renewed to 2025, is to assist the economies of sub-Saharan Africa and to improve economic relations between the United States and the region. The program offers the participants preferential access to US markets with no import taxes. To qualify and remain eligible for AGOA, each sub-Saharan country must be working to improve the rule of law, human rights and respect for core labor standards. AGOA provides duty-free access to textiles and apparel subject to the wearing apparel provisions which have their own requirements and rules of origin. For example, apparel made in a less developed beneficiary country is granted duty-free access, even when the fabric used in such manufacture is sourced from third countries. Textiles are also eligible provided that they are manufactured in the AGOA beneficiary countries (AGOA 2018).
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Aziz, M., Salloum, C., Alexandre-Leclair, L. (2019). The Fashion Industry in Africa: A Global Vision of the Sector. In: Moreno-Gavara, C., Jiménez-Zarco, A. (eds) Sustainable Fashion. Palgrave Studies of Entrepreneurship in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91265-3_4
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