§3702 — Title 19 Customs Duties | U.S. Code

Summary

Congress supports boosting trade and investment between the United States and sub‑Saharan Africa. It wants to make trade easier by cutting tariffs and other barriers, give more U.S. help for regional cooperation, and seek fair trade deals or free trade areas that help both sides. Congress also wants to work with countries that follow the rule of law and push economic reform and poverty reduction, grow the private sector especially women‑owned and small businesses, support civil society and political freedom, create a U.S.–Sub‑Saharan Africa trade forum, encourage joining the OECD anti‑bribery convention, and promote women’s role in development.

Title 19, §3702

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Congress supports—

(1)encouraging increased trade and investment between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa;

(2)reducing tariff and nontariff barriers and other obstacles to sub-Saharan African and United States trade;

(3)expanding United States assistance to sub-Saharan Africa’s regional integration efforts;

(4)negotiating reciprocal and mutually beneficial trade agreements, including the possibility of establishing free trade areas that serve the interests of both the United States and the countries of sub-Saharan Africa;

(5)focusing on countries committed to the rule of law, economic reform, and the eradication of poverty;

(6)strengthening and expanding the private sector in sub-Saharan Africa, especially enterprises owned by women and small businesses;

(7)facilitating the development of civil societies and political freedom in sub-Saharan Africa;

(8)establishing a United States-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum;

(9)the accession of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions; and

(10)promoting the role of women in social, political, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Amendments

2015—Par. (10). Pub. L. 114–27 added par. (10).

§3702 Statement of policy

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Title 19, §3702

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