Opinion
Global Business Leaders Need To Push Ethiopia Toward Peace
— November 2, 2021

By Michael Posner
By Michael Posner
Responding to these abuses, this week the Biden Administration announced that Ethiopia will lose its duty-free market status on January 1 under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) if it fails to take “urgent action” to address the gross human rights violations.
The AGOA program grants eligible sub-Saharan African nations duty-free access to the US market for thousands of products. First adopted in 2001, the objective of this law is to encourage export from, and growth in, the “least developed countries” (LDCs) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Read the full Forbes article.
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Michael Posner is a Professor of Business and Society and Director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.