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The U.S. Should Not Reward Mauritania for Slavery Practices
… Mauritania receives preferential access to U.S. markets under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade benefits program. … AGOA is designed to spark economic development in Sub-Saharan African countries by expanding duty-free benefits and opening U.S. markets to African goods. As part of the program, AGOA beneficiaries are required to improve the … organizations worldwide, are calling on the U.S. Trade Representative to review Mauritania’s eligibility for AGOA trade benefits. Mauritania outlawed slavery in 1981, the world’s last country to do so. Yet in 2017, the practice of slavery is …