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'US is key in promoting Gambia textile market'
Tuesday, 12 October 2010 21:41
The United States Embassy Charge D’Affaires in The Gambia, Cynthia F. Gregg, said her
country was playing a key role in supporting and promoting Gambian women textile products into the US market, according to PANA news agency.Gregg said this at the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade seminar, organized here by the US Embassy in Banjul and the West
Africa Trade Hub (WATH) Office in Dakar, Senegal.She said the seminar, with the theme: “The Opportunities and Procedures for Ex porting to the United States under AGOA”, was meant to give the participants the understanding and the need to improve the quality of their products with sufficient value-added services in order to penetrate the America market.
She observed that The Gambia had three sectors with great potentials to benefit from AGOA. These includes fisheries, the apparel or garment industry and special t y foods.
According to her, the event was part of the ongoing efforts by the US Embassy an d the trade hub to educate and motivate The Gambia's private sector to access the huge market opportunities that exist in the United States .
AGOA was passed by the United States Congress in May 2000, as a new approach to US trade and investment policy towards Africa, which Gregg noted is meant to promote and increase trade and economic cooperation between US and eligible sub-Saharan African countries.
She noted that the act is also meant to enhance political and economic reform in eligible African countries.
AGOA provides sub-Saharan countries the opportunity of exporting a wide range of products to America, both duty-free and quota-free and covers an expanded list o f more than 6,000 products from the continent, including fish and fish products, textile, apparel, handicrafts and footwear.
Source: PANA
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However, the problem is, Gambia is far behind in the textile industry in West Africa. Unfortunately, we have an illiterate ruler who is engaged in controlling the stomach of his people by annexing Agriculture rather than being a genuine ruler with genuine knowledgeable team to think strategically for Gambia.
It is impossible to extract investment to such sectors like garment in a country where the ruler is like a vulture in search of any opportunity that will further his firm grab on the people of Gambia.
Such AGOA will be just a cloud hanging over our head as long as Gambia is rule by a selfish and illiterate person who main concern in life is to be an eternity ruler and be love (never got any from birth) by all means by Gambians.
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