Despite Hillary Clinton’s commendation, our exporters are not fully utilizing the AGOA opportunities.

Rwanda’s phoenix-like emergence from the ashes of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi to an emerging regional powerhouse was warmly commended by the US Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, in her speech at the 8th Forum of AGOA Kenya, on 5th of August.The African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), signed by former President Bill Clinton, has allowed African products to enter the American market duty-free since its inception in May 2000.As a result of this single piece of trade legislation, huge opportunities have availed themselves to African exporters and, as a result, entire Sub-Saharan nations as well. Rwanda has not been left behind.