WT/L/889  
 
9 July 2013  
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General Council 
24-25 July 2013  Original: English  
  
 
 UNITED STATES – AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT 
REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE YEAR 2012 
UNDER THE DECISION OF 27 MAY 2009
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The following communication, dated 4 July 2013, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the United States.  
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 1  INTRODUCTION 
1.1.  On 27 May 2009, the United States was granted a waiver (WT/L/754) of its obligations under 
paragraph 1 of Article I and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article XIII of the GATT 1994 to the extent 
necessary to permit the United States Governme nt to provide duty-free treatment to eligible 
products of certain sub-Saharan African countries as authorized by the provisions of the African 
Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) without be ing required to extend the same duty-free 
treatment to like products of any other Member. This waiver expires 30 September 2015. 
1.2.  Under the terms of this waiver, the United States is required to submit to the General Council 
an annual report on the implementation of the tr ade-related provisions of AGOA with a view to 
facilitating the annual review provided for in para graph 4 of Article IX of the WTO Agreement. This 
report covers calendar year 2012. 
2  DUTY FREE TREATMENT UNDER AGOA 
2.1.  AGOA was enacted on 18 May 2000. Section 506A of the Trade Act of 1974, as added by 
section 111 of AGOA, authorizes the President of th e United States to provide duty-free treatment 
to certain products from eligible sub-Saharan African beneficiary countries, in addition to the 
products designated for duty-free treatment for these countries under the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). The President exercised th is authority on 18 December 2000, when he 
designated 1,835 products as eligible for duty-free treatment in the United States when originating 
from an AGOA beneficiary country. Section 506B of the Trade Act of 1974, as added by 
section 114 of AGOA, as amended, extends preferences for these products and for GSP products to AGOA beneficiary countries through 30 September 2015. 
2.2.  Section 506A of the Trade Act of 1974 also authorizes the President of the United States to 
designate certain sub-Saharan African countries as eligible for benefits under AGOA. In December 2012, President Obama designated the Republic of South Sudan as eligible for AGOA 
benefits, which means it can now take advantag e of duty-free access to the U.S. market for 
certain products. At the same time, the President also determined that the Republic of Guinea-
Bissau and the Republic of Mali would not be eligible to receive AGOA benefits in 2013, as a result of the coup d’états, political instability, and human rights abuses that occurred in those two 
countries. As of 1 June 2013, 39 sub-Saharan African countries were eligible for AGOA trade 
benefits. These countries are:  Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape 
Verde, Chad, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Gabon, The 
                                               
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  Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, 
Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Ta nzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. 
2.3.  Section 112(a) of AGOA provides duty-free treatment for certain textile and apparel products 
from beneficiary countries that adopt certain procedures to prevent illegal transhipment.
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Through 30 September 2015, section 112(c) of AG OA provides duty-free treatment for apparel 
made in “lesser developed” beneficiary countries regardless of the source of the fabric or yarn, 
subject to an annual quantitative limit.3   
3  AGOA PERFORMANCE 3.1.  Since its inception in 2000, the AGOA program has helped African beneficiary countries to 
expand and diversify their exports to the United States. By providing new market opportunities for 
African exports – especially of non-traditional and higher-value products – AGOA has helped 
African firms become more competitive internationally, thereby bolstering African economic growth and helping to alleviate poverty in one of the p oorest regions of the world. In 2012, about 91 per 
cent of U.S. imports from AGOA-eligible countri es entered the United States duty-free, under 
AGOA, GSP, or other zero-tariff provisions. 
3.2.  U.S. imports under AGOA (not including its related GSP provisions) increased from $7.6 
billion in 2001, the first full year of AGOA trade, to $32.7 billion in 2012, after reaching a pre-crisis 
peak of $56.4 billion in 2008. 
3.3.  Mineral fuels (HTS chapter 27) accounted for almost 90 per cent of U.S. imports under AGOA 
in 2012, a decline from over 93 per cent last year. Other leading categories of U.S. imports include 
vehicles (HTS chapter 87), apparel (HTS chapters 61 and 62), iron and steel products 
(HTS chapter 72), edible fruits and nuts (HTS chapter 8), chemical products (HTS chapter 38), 
beverages and spirits (HTS chapter 22), processed agricultural products (HTS chapters 20 and 21), 
and footwear (HTS chapter 64). Non-oil imports under AGOA (not including its related GSP 
provisions) more than quadrupled from 2001 to 2012, rising from $752 million in 2001 to $3.3 billion in 2012. South Africa is currently the largest non-oil AGOA beneficiary. Other leading 
beneficiary countries are Nigeria, Angola, Chad, Ga bon, the Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Kenya, 
Mauritius, Cameroon, Malawi, Togo, Cote d’Ivoire and Ethiopia. 
3.4.  Apparel was the leading AGOA non-oil product sector for most of the period 2001-2012. 
Apparel represented 25 per cent to 79 per cent of total non-oil AGOA imports (not including its 
related GSP provisions) during this period. Imports of apparel under AGOA rose from $356 million 
in 2001 to $815 million in 2012. Eighteen AGOA beneficiary countries have shipped apparel products to the United States under AGOA since 2001, led by Lesotho, Kenya, Mauritius, 
Swaziland, and Botswana. The leading category of apparel in 2012 included woven cotton men’s or 
boy’s trousers and shorts. 
3.5.  Another leading non-oil sector for the period 2001-2012 was motor vehicles. Imports under 
AGOA in this product sector reached approximately $1.9 billion in 2012. 
3.6.  Among other AGOA imports, the following products witnessed significant growth from 2001 to 
2012:  shelled macadamia and other nuts, some type s of grape wine, pineapple and citrus juices, 
prepared vegetables, fresh roses, some footwear, prepared tuna, leather gloves, certain hides and 
skins, some varieties of fresh fruit, natural hone y, jams and jellies, glassware, prepared seafood, 
plastic articles, spices, certain cereals, edible ice, skin-care preparations, and essential oils.   
3.7.  The U.S. Government has provided substant ial trade-related technical assistance to AGOA 
beneficiary countries to help them make the most of the trade opportunities available under AGOA. 
For example, under the four-year, $120 million African Competitiveness and Trade Expansion 
                                               
2 As of 1 June 2013, the beneficiary countries eligible for duty-free treatment of certain textile and 
apparel products were: Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, 
The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, 
Senegal, Sierra Leone, So uth Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. 
3 Of the countries listed in footnote 2, only South Africa has not been designated a “lesser developed” 
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  (ACTE) Initiative, the US Agency for International Development operates three Regional Hubs for 
Global Competitiveness – in Botswana, Kenya, and Ghana – that assist African governments and businesses to identify and develop market opportuni ties in the United States for African products, 
especially value-added and non-traditional products such as those covered under AGOA.   
3.8.  Statistical annexes are provided to present a detailed description of the trade aspects of the 
AGOA programme from 2004 to 2012. 
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 Table 1 provides summary information on US imports for consumption under AGOA from 2004 to 
2012. 
 
Table 2  provides information on leading US imports for consumption under AGOA provisions from 
2010 to 2012. 
 
Table 3  provides information on US trade with AGOA countries from 2004 to 2012.  
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US IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION UNDER AGOA PROVISIONS, BY SOURCES, 2004-20124 
Source 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 
Value (1,000 dollars) 
Nigeria 15,415,913.5 22,460,051.8 25,823,091.1 30,137,133.0 35,366,204.2 17,228,232.2 25,153,807.1 31,003,704.9 17,723,567.3 
Angola 1,249,210.7 4,216,468.8 4,532,941.5 4,767,933.9 9,794,964.5 4,225,139.3 6,293,944.1 11,534,111.7 6,660,737.9 
South Africa 832,440.9 455,315.6 717,439.1 1,076,984.9 2,427,689.9 1,642,892.5 1,902,140.4 2,464,830.8 2,384,108.7 
Chad 293,800.6 1,028,953.9 1,531,432.6 1,487,551.9 2,309,229.9 1,190,403.4 1,186,313.6 2,991,225.7 2,376,665.2 
Gabon 1,919,407.1 2,487,326.2 1,290,030.8 1,673,604.6 2,143,355.3 1,210,007.2 1,124,243.8 477,521.3 1,271,620.6 
Congo (ROC) 342,247.5 571,418.6 774,536.5 1,487,669.8 2,639,140.5 1,471,657.0 1,935,530.5 1,935,187.1 1,225,538.9 
Lesotho 447,622.0 388,344.3 384,451.9 379,592.0 338,796.8 277,046.4 280,341.6 314,311.2 300,609.0 
Kenya 279,897.9 272,131.1 265,051.2 250,352.0 252,243.0 204,981.6 220,636.1 288,273.4 287,737.5 
Mauritius 147,815.9 146,807.5 145,843.0 112,347.1 97,291.5 98,747.2 117,910.9 155,982.1 160,030.0 
Cameroon 242,725.3 100,910.2 152,393.8 169,172.5 441,316.1 96,749.7 113,469.3 137,372.0 111,765.0 
Swaziland 175,927.3 160,462.3 135,424.6 135,837.7 125,386.6 94,718.2 92,798.4 77,121.1 62,373.3 
Malawi 35,051.7 32,375.2 29,901.2 27,568.3 26,680.4 39,734.3 47,190.6 56,145.6 46,307.1 
Togo 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 44,448.4 
Cote d`Ivoire 88,600.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29,901.5 
Ethiopia 3,532.3 3,646.4 5,000.4 4,741.3 9,391.5 6,723.4 6,875.1 10,886.5 18,294.1 
Ghana 63,169.9 49,926.9 34,873.8 56,151.3 31,493.6 2,303.3 2,052.8 414,094.2 16,988.1 
Tanzania 2,983.6 2,811.7 3,022.4 2,814.8 1,527.3 1,006.2 1,850.1 5,130.9 10,445.8 
Botswana 20,137.9 30,043.7 28,224.5 31,331.2 15,803.0 12,361.7 11,558.5 15,478.5 10,426.7 
Senegal 7.5 9.2 14,239.5 13.5 10,228.9 1,585.1 6.7 2.7 5,634.0 
Namibia 75,904.3 53,058.4 33,018.7 28,579.2 6.2 0.0 5.3 12.8 215.6 
Cape Verde 2,901.9 2,115.4 85.4 0.0 0.0 0.0 145.6 154.0 116.9 
Uganda 4,021.7 4,854.3 1,489.5 1,189.4 472.6 221.9 344.8 786.9 64.5 
Mozambique 2,150.7 2,827.7 939.8 825.2 129.1 0.0 183.6 688.6 29.5 
                                               
4 The following countries were not eligible for the corresponding years:  Burkina Faso (2004), Burundi (2004-05), Central Africa n Republic (2004-12), Comoros (2004-07), 
Congo (DROC) (2011-12), Cote d’Ivoire (2005-10), Eritrea (2004-12), Guinea (2010), Liberia (2004-06), Madagascar (2010-12), Mau ritania (2006, 2009), Niger (2010), and Togo 
(2004-07).  
Note: Because of rounding, figures may not add to totals given . The following countries that were eligible for AGOA for at least part of the period 2004-2012 did not register 
any trade under AGOA provisions during this  period:  Benin, Burundi, Central African Republic, Comoros, Eritrea, Liberia, Sao T ome and Principe, Seyche lles, and South Sudan.  
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Value (1,000 dollars) 
Mali 3.2 0.0 2.9 8.5 3.9 61.6 3.6 1.6 20.6 
Rwanda 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 5.3 62.9 10.5 17.3 7.9 
Zambia 21.9 0.0 8.1 73.0 4.8 6.7 0.4 10.3 6.8 
Burkina Faso 0.0 0.0 5.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.7 1.7 5.0 
Guinea 0.0 0.0 0.0 26.6 0.7 1.1 0.0 0.0 2.5 
Niger 0.0 24.3 0.7 26.6 0.7 2.8 0.0 0.0 1.2 
Congo (DROC) 0.0 0.0 0.0 39,478.3 65,234.2 35,651.5 147,041.6 0.0 0.0 
Djibouti 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 16.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 
Gambia 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 5.3 1.4 0.0 
Guinea-Bissau 26,131.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
Madagascar 314,841.7 273,193.1 229,541.2 281,443.3 277,050.7 210,003.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 
Mauritania 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 26,395.5 0.0 0.0 
Sierra Leone 3.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
Total 21,986,472.0 32,743,077.0 36,132,990.2 42,152,450.3 56,373,650.9 28,050,317.9 38,664,807.2 51,883,054.2 32,747,669.6 
Source:  Compiled from offi cial statistics of the US Department of Commerce. 
  
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US IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION UNDER AGOA PROVISIONS, BY SOURCES, 2004-2012 
 
Source 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 
Per cent of total 
Nigeria 70.12  68.59  71.47  71.50  62.74 61.42  65.06  59.76  54.12  
Angola 5.68  12.88  12.55  11.31  17.38 15.06  16.28  22.23  20.34  
South Africa 3.79  1.39 1.99 2.55 4.31 5.86  4.92 4.75 7.28 
Chad 1.34  3.14 4.24 3.53 4.10 4.24  3.07 5.77 7.26 
Gabon 8.73  7.60 3.57 3.97 3.80 4.31  2.91 0.92 3.88 
Congo (ROC) 1.56  1.75 2.14 3.53 4.68 5.25  5.01 3.73 3.74 
Lesotho 2.04  1.19 1.06 0.90 0.60 0.99  0.73 0.61 0.92 
Kenya 1.27  0.83 0.73 0.59 0.45 0.73  0.57 0.56 0.88 
Mauritius 0.67  0.45 0.40 0.27 0.17 0.35  0.30 0.30 0.49 
Cameroon 1.10  0.31 0.42 0.40 0.78 0.34  0.29 0.26 0.34 
Swaziland 0.80  0.49 0.37 0.32 0.22 0.34  0.24 0.15 0.19 
Malawi 0.16  0.10 0.08 0.07 0.05 0.14  0.12 0.11 0.14 
Togo 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.14 
Cote d`Ivoire 0.40  0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.09 
Ethiopia 0.02  0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.02  0.02 0.02 0.06 
Ghana 0.29  0.15 0.10 0.13 0.06 0.01  0.01 0.80 0.05 
Tanzania 0.01  0.01 0.01 0.01 (b) (b) (b) 0.01 0.03 
Botswana 0.09  0.09 0.08 0.07 0.03 0.04  0.03 0.03 0.03 
Senegal (b) (b) 0.04 (b) 0.02 0.01  (b) (b) 0.02 
Namibia 0.35  0.16 0.09 0.07 (b) 0.00  (b) (b) (b) 
Cape Verde 0.01  0.01 (b) 0.00 0.00 0.00  (b) (b) (b) 
Uganda 0.02  0.01 (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) 
Mozambique 0.01  0.01 (b) (b) (b) 0.00  (b) (b) (b) 
Mali (b) 0.00 (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) 
Rwanda 0.00  (b) 0.00 0.00 (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) 
Zambia (b) 0.00 (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) (b)  
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 Source 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 
 Per cent of total  
Burkina Faso 0.00  0.00 (b) 0.00 0.00 0.00  (b) (b) (b) 
Guinea 0.00  0.00 0.00 (b) (b) (b) 0.00 0.00 (b) 
Niger 0.00  (b) (b) (b) (b) (b) 0.00 0.00 (b) 
Congo (DROC) 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.09 0.12 0.13  0.38 0.00 0.00 
Djibouti 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 (b) 0.00 0.00 0.00 
Gambia 0.00  0.00 0.00 (b) 0.00 0.00  (b) (b) 0.00 
Guinea-Bissau 0.12  0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.00 
Madagascar 1.43  0.83 0.64 0.67 0.49 0.75  0.00 0.00 0.00 
Mauritania 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00  0.07 0.00 0.00 
Sierra Leone (b) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00  0.00 0.00 0.00 
Grand Tota 100.00  100.00  100.00  100.00  100.00 100.00  100.00  100.00  100.00  
b Less than 0.005 per cent. 
Source:  Compiled from offi cial statistics of the US Department of Commerce. 
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  TABLE 2 
LEADING U.S. IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION UNDER AGOA PROVISIONS, 2010-20125 
                                               
5 Includes imports for all AGOA countries for all years. Not all countries were eligible for AGOA 
preferences in all years. See AGOA ta ble 1 for periods of program coverage. HTS number Description 2010 2011 2012 Change 
2011-
2012 
Value (millions of dollars) Per cent 
Mineral fuels and oils (HTS chapter 27) 
2709.00.20 Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, 
crude, testing 25 degr ees A.P.I. or more 33,841.8 42,623.1 24,879.4 -41.6 
2709.00.10 Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, 
crude, testing under  25 degrees A.P.I. 1,518.4 4,810.9 3,234.3 -32.8 
2710.12.25 Naphthas (exc. motor fuel/mtr fuel blend. stock) fr 
petroleum oils & bitumin mi nerals (o/than crude) or 
preps 70%+ by wt. fr petroleum oils NV NV 554.9 NA 
2710.19.06 Distillate and residual fuel oil (including blends) 
derived from petroleum or oils from bituminous minerals, testing > 25 degrees A.P.I. NV NV 452.5 NA 
2710.12.45 Light oil mixt. of hydrocarbons fr petro oils & bitum 
min(o/than crude) or prep 70%+ wt. fr petro oils, nesoi,n/o 50% any single hydrocarbon NV NV 252.4 NA 
Total of above 35,360.3 47,434.1 29,373.5 -38.1 
All other 620.6 1,063.4 88.3 -91.7 
  Total for mineral fuels and oils 35,980.9 48,497.5 29,461.7 -39.3 
Textiles and apparel (HTS chapters 50-63) 
6203.42.40 Men's or boys' trousers and shorts, not bibs, not 
knitted or crocheted, of cotton, not containing 15% or more by weight of down, etc 123.0 141.1 134.6 -4.7 
6205.20.20 Men's or boys' shirts, not knitted or crocheted, of 
cotton, nesoi 76.7 116.7 128.9 10.5 
6204.62.40 Women's or girls' trousers, breeches and shorts, not 
knitted or crocheted, of cotton, nesoi 116.2 125.9 105.2 -16.4 
6110.30.30 Sweaters, pullovers and similar articles, knitted or 
crocheted, of manmade fibers, nesoi 66.3 72.6 68.2 -6.0 
6104.62.20 Women's or girls' trousers, breeches and shorts, 
knitted or crocheted, of cotton 55.3 49.0 56.2 14.7 
6104.63.20 Women's or girls' trousers, breeches and shorts, 
knitted or crocheted, of synthetic fibers, nesoi 22.7 41.1 47.2 15.0 
6105.20.20 Men's or boys' shirts, knitted or crocheted, of 
manmade fibers, nesoi 14.2 28.1 35.1 25.0 
6110.20.20 Sweaters, pullovers and similar articles, knitted or 
crocheted, of cotton, nesoi 84.5 62.4 32.0 -48.7 
6109.90.10 T-shirts, singlets, tank tops and similar garments, 
knitted or crocheted, of man-made fibers 10.2 18.4 27.3 48.8 
6103.43.15 Men's or boys' trousers, breeches and shorts, knitted 
or crocheted, of synthetic fibers, nesoi 21.0 25.6 25.8 1.0 
Total of above 590.2 680.9 660.7 -3.0 
All other 136.3 173.9 152.0 -12.6 
  Total for textiles and apparel 726.5 854.8 812.7 -4.9 
Agriculture (HTS chapters 1-24) 
0802.62.00 Macadamia nuts, shelled NV NV 57.0 NA 
0805.10.00 Oranges, fresh or dried 38.7 38.0 39.6 4.1 2401.20.85 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped, 
threshed or similarly processed, not from cigar leaf , described in addl US note 5 to chap 24 29.2 35.2 34.4 -2.3 WT/L/889 
 
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 HTS number Description 2010 2011 2012 Change 
2011-
2012 
  Value (millions of dollars) Per cent 
2204.21.50 Wine other than Tokay (not carbonated), not over 
14% alcohol, in containers not over 2 liters 27.4 27.4 29.5 7.6 
2207.10.60 Undenatured ethyl alcohol of 80 per cent vol. alcohol 
or higher, for nonbeverage purposes 22.9 17.0 17.0 0.0 
2204.29.60 Grape wine, other than sparkling, not over 14% vol. 
alcohol, in containers holding over 4 liters 2.3 2.9 15.3 417.6 
0805.20.00 Mandarins (including tangerines and satsumas); 
clementines, wilkings and similar citrus hybrids, fresh or dried 9.6 5.4 7.6 40.0 
0802.90.98 Nuts nesi, fresh or dried, shelled NV NV 7.5 NA 
2105.00.50 Edible ice, except ice cream, not described in add US 
note 1 to Ch. 4, nesoi 7.6 7.2 5.8 -19.8 
2401.20.83 Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped, 
threshed or similarly processed, not from cigar leaf , not oriental or turkis h, not for cigarettes 3.1 4.6 5.0 9.2 
Total of above  140.7 137.8  218.6 
 58.7 
All other 80.4 81.3 27.5 -66.1 
  Total for agriculture 221.1 219.0 246.1 12.4 
All other products (HTS chapters 25-26, 28-49, and 64-99) 
8703.23.00 Mtr cars & o/mtr. vehicles for transport of persons, 
w/spark-ign. int. combust. recip. piston engine w/cyl. cap. o/1500 cc n/o 3000 cc 1,470.7 1,994.8 1,871.6 -6.2 
7202.11.50 Ferromanganese containing by weight more than 4 
per cent of carbon 141.9 204.5 197.4 -3.5 
3823.70.60 Industrial fatty alcohols other than derived from 
fatty substances of animal or vegetable origin 40.5 47.5 54.4 14.6 
8703.24.00 Mtr cars & o/mtr. vehicles for transport of persons, 
w/spark-ign. int. combust. recip. piston engine w/cyl. cap. o/ 3000 cc 58.4 34.9 42.9 22.8 
8111.00.47 Unwrought manganese flake containing at least 99.5 
per cent by we ight manganese 4.2 8.0 23.7 197.5 
3815.90.50 Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and 
catalytic preparations, nesoi 0.0 0.0 6.7 NA 
8708.92.50 Pts. & access. of mtr. vehic. of 8701, nesoi, and 
8702-8705, mufflers & exhaust pipes 6.1 5.5 6.0 10.3 
8707.10.00 Bodies (including cabs), for mtr. vehicles for 
transport of persons of heading 8703 3.0 2.9 4.6 57.9 
8482.20.00 Tapered roller bearings, including cone and tapered 
roller assemblies 0.3 2.3 2.8 25.9 
6403.99.90 Footwear w/outer soles of rubber/plastics/comp. 
leather & uppers of leat her, n/cov. ankle, for 
women/child./infants, val. over $2.50/pair 0.3 0.5 2.3 374.2 
Total of above 1,725.4 2,300.8 2,212.5 -3.8 
All other 11.0 11.0 14.6 33.5 
  Total for all other products 1,736.3 2,311.8 2,227.1 -3.7 
    
  Grand total 38,664.8 51,883.1 32,747.7 -36.9 
Note:  Because of rounding, figures may not add to totals given.  NV indicates the tariff line was not valid in that year. NA 
indicates a calculation was not applicable. 
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  TABLE 3 
US TRADE WITH AGOA BENEFICIARY COUNTRIES, 2004-20126 
Year US exports7 Share of 
US exports 
to the 
world US imports8 Share of US 
imports 
from the 
world US trade 
balance 
Millions dollars Per cent Millions dollars Per cent Millions dollars 
2004 7,692.6 1.1  32,913.5  2.3 -25,220.9  
2005 9,242.5 1.1  44,937.4  2.7 -35,694.9  
2006 10,572.4 1.1  52,787.5  2.9 -42,215.1  
2007 12,967.6 1.2  61,583.7  3.2 -48,616.1  
2008 17,239.7 1.5  77,490.1  3.7 -60,250.4  
2009 13,873.1 1.5  41,580.9  2.7 -27,707.7  
2010 15,576.3 1.4  57,126.6  3.0 -41,550.3  
2011 19,645.1  1.5 68,638.9  3.2 -48,993.8  
2012 20,981.8 1.6  47,456.6  2.1 -26,474.8  
Note: Because of rounding, figure s may not add to totals given . 
Source:  Compiled from offi cial statistics of the US Department of Commerce.  
 
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6 The following countries were not eligible for the corresponding years:  Burkina Faso (2004), Burundi 
(2004-05), Central African Republic (2004-12), Comoros (2004-07), Congo (DROC) (2011-12), Cote d’Ivoire (2005-10), Eritrea (2004-12), Guinea (2010), Liberia (2004-06), Madagascar (2010-12), Mauritania (2006, 2009), Niger (2010), and Togo (2004-07). South Sudan eligibility began in 2012, although there were no 
imports under AGOA provisions from this country in 2012. 
7 Domestic exports, f.a.s. basis. 
8 Imports for consumption, customs value.