change concerns as related to United States-Africa 
trade and investment activity. 
(3) ANTI-CORRUPTION.—Enhance a shared 
commitment and applied programmatic activities to 
prevent and combat bribery and other forms of cor-
ruption, including sharing information on best prac-
tices to prevent and combat bribery and corruption, 
and efforts to explore the negotiation of specific re-
lated commitments, as related to United States-Afri-
ca trade and investment activity. 
(4) DIGITAL TRADE.—Foster African and joint 
United States-Africa trade- and investment-related 
consumer, business, and worker trust in the digital 
economy, including by ensuring access to informa-
tion, promoting the development and use of resilient 
and secure digital infrastructure, promoting competi-
tion and the participation of micro, small, and me-
dium enterprises (referred to as ‘‘MSMEs’’), and ad-
dressing discriminatory practices, including meas-
ures to support digital inclusion, to include accessi-
bility online consumer protection, and global discus-
sions on emerging issues in digital trade. 
(5) ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE AC-
TION.—Measures to strengthen environmental pro-
tection and, conservation, climate change adaptation 
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and mitigation, and sustainable use and manage-
ment of natural resources as such issues may relate 
to or help to foster or be advanced by United States- 
African trade and investment activity. 
(6) GOOD
REGULATORY
PRACTICES.—Explore 
of United States-African negotiations over high-level 
commitments on topics such as ensuring adequate 
time for public consultations on proposed regula-
tions, posting proposed regulations for review by in-
terested stakeholders, and basing regulatory deci-
sions on best available information, science, and evi-
dence, including undertaking risk analysis and regu-
latory impact assessment as appropriate. 
(7) MICRO-, SMALL- AND
MEDIUM-SIZED
EN-
TERPRISES.—Measures and approaches to integrate 
MSMEs, including women-owned enterprises, into 
international trade, alongside periodic technical best 
practices exchanges and roundtables on MSMEs, 
given the key role of successful MSME activity in 
achieving sustained economic growth. 
(8) PROMOTING WORKERS’ RIGHTS AND PRO-
TECTIONS.—Joint United States-African applied col-
laboration to advance and protect internationally 
recognized labor rights in Africa through enforce-
ment of, and compliance with, labor laws, the pro-
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motion of social dialogue, and cooperation in other 
areas of mutual interest on labor and employment 
priorities, including forced labor in global supply 
chains. 
(9) SUPPORTING
PARTICIPATION
OF
WOMEN, 
YOUTH, AND OTHERS IN TRADE.—Promote economic 
opportunities for women, youth, persons with disabil-
ities, 
other 
vulnerable 
or 
socioeconomically 
marginalized populations, and the African diaspora 
including through the development and adoption of 
trade policies to promote and facilitate their partici-
pation in international trade, and to promote good 
paying, high-quality jobs and sustainable livelihoods. 
(10) STANDARDS
COLLABORATION.—Improve 
technical and legal standards, conformity assessment 
procedures, and technical regulations that have a 
significant impact on trade, including opportunities 
to reduce impediments to trade due to differences 
among national legal and technical systems, and 
measures to facilitate mutual understanding among 
governments of their peers’ respective processes for 
the preparation, adoption, and application of tech-
nical regulations, standards and conformity assess-
ment procedures based on mutually agreed best 
practices. 
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(11) TRADE FACILITATION AND CUSTOMS PRO-
CEDURES
MODERNIZATION.—Increase the volume, 
value, and velocity of goods and services traded be-
tween African countries by improving customs oper-
ations, which should include— 
(A) measures that take into consideration 
the profound disruption that international in-
fectious disease outbreaks and pandemics can 
cause to supply chains, as demonstrated by the 
2019 coronavirus pandemic, notably in 2020 
and 2021, and the demonstrated benefits of 
streamlining border procedures and accelerating 
World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation 
Agreement implementation for trade in goods in 
order to better address such challenges, notably 
in Africa; 
(B) providing support for increased auto-
mation or online processing of customs and 
cross-border trade-related tasks; and 
(C) supporting efforts— 
(i) to ensure adequate access to reli-
able electrical power supplies and internet 
to foster digitalization of trade or trade-re-
lated regulatory compliance where nec-
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essary, such as at border posts that admin-
ister trade flows; and 
(ii) to provide paper-based, or other 
applicable technical alternatives at border 
crossings where electricity or internet ac-
cess is unreliable or unavailable, including 
in coordination with the United States 
Power Africa or Prosper Africa initiatives 
where applicable. 
(12) INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY.—Strengthen 
African Governments intellectual property legal 
frameworks by enhancing cooperation to boost inno-
vation, research, and development, propel technology 
advancement, promote creativity, attract invest-
ments, and harmonize national laws and regulations 
toward such ends, including through the use of 
international intellectual property agreements or 
treaties. 
SEC. 6. AFCFTA TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM. 
(a) TRADE
CAPACITY
BUILDING
IMPLEMENTA-
TION.—The Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development shall establish an AfCFTA 
Trade Capacity Building Program to support the imple-
mentation of the strategy required by section 4 through 
existing authorities granted by the Foreign Assistance Act 
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of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.), in collaboration with 
continental, regional, and country partners including the 
civil society and private sector in Africa. In carrying out 
such Program, the Administrator— 
(1) may designate the Prosper Africa Initiative 
to administer the AfCFTA Trade Capacity Building 
Program; 
(2) shall consult with the United States Trade 
Representative in making programmatic decisions; 
and 
(3) shall receive approval from the Trade Policy 
Staff Committee established pursuant to section 
242(a) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (19 
U.S.C. 1872(a)) for all planned activities for which 
funds are to be made available (including any trans-
fers to other Federal departments, agencies, or enti-
ties). 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for each of fis-
cal years 2025 through 2034 for the United States Agency 
for International Development to carry out the AfCFTA 
Trade Capacity Building Program described in subsection 
(a). Amounts so authorized— 
(1) shall be in addition to amounts otherwise 
authorized for existing trade, investment, or eco-
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nomic growth-related projects, programs, and activi-
ties that support the goals of such Program; 
(2) may be made available for consulting or 
technical services, equipment, new personnel, or 
other project-related administrative expenses associ-
ated with the development, implementation, and re-
porting requirements of the President’s strategy re-
quired by section 4(a); and 
(3) are authorized to be transferred as nec-
essary to carry out the objectives of this Act from 
the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment to other Federal departments or agencies with 
a role in implementing the strategy required by sec-
tion 4(a), to the extent provided in advance by ap-
propriations Acts. 
SEC. 7. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act may be construed to— 
(1) limit any authority or responsibility of the 
United States Trade Representative relating to the 
establishment or implementation of the trade policies 
of the United States (including under section 141 of 
the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2171)); or 
(2) any such authority or responsibility to the 
Administrator of the United States Agency for 
International Development. 
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SEC. 8. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AfCFTA.—The term ‘‘AfCFTA’’ means the 
African Continental Free Trade Area authorized to 
be created under the Agreement Establishing the Af-
rican Continental Free Trade Area, adopted by its 
African Union signatories in Kigali, Rwanda, on 
March 21, 2018. 
(2) AFRICAN
DIASPORA.—The term ‘‘African 
diaspora’’ means ‘‘consisting of people of African or-
igin living outside the continent, irrespective of their 
citizenship and nationality and who are willing to 
contribute to the development of the continent and 
the building of the African Union’’ as defined by the 
African Union. 
(3) AFRICAN
REGIONAL
ECONOMIC
COMMU-
NITIES.—The term ‘‘Africa Regional Economic Com-
munities’’ means various economic and political or-
ganizations in Africa established to promote regional 
integration, cooperation, and development among 
states. These communities include entities such as 
the African Union (AU, Economic community of 
West Africa States (ECOWAS), East African Com-
munity (EAC), Southern African Development Com-
munity (SADC), and others. 
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(4) 
RELEVANT
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘relevant congressional commit-
tees’’ means the following: 
(A) The Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
(B) The Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Finance, and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate. 
Æ 
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