African Growth and Opportunity Act

African Growth and Opportunity Act
Other short titles	United States-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
Long title	An Act to authorize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan Africa, expand trade benefits to the countries in the Caribbean Basin, renew the generalized system of preferences, and reauthorize the trade adjustment assistance programs.
Acronyms (colloquial)	AGOA
Nicknames	Trade and Development Act of 2000
Enacted by	the 106th United States Congress
Effective	May 18, 2000
Citations
Public law	106-200
Statutes at Large	114 Stat. 251
Codification
Titles amended	19 U.S.C.: Customs Duties
U.S.C. sections created	19 U.S.C. ch. 23 § 3701 et seq.
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 434 by Phil Crane (R–IL) on February 2, 1999; Committee consideration by House International Relations, House Ways and Means, House Banking and Financial Services; Passed the House on July 16, 1999 (234-163, Roll call vote 307, via Clerk.House.gov); Passed the Senate on November 3, 1999 (76-19, Roll call vote 353, via Senate.gov); Reported by the joint conference committee on May 4, 2000; agreed to by the House on May 4, 2000 (309-110, Roll call vote 145, via Clerk.House.gov) and by the Senate on May 11, 2000 (77-19, Roll call vote 98, via Senate.gov); Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on May 18, 2000;

The African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA (Title I, Trade and Development Act of 2000; P.L. 106–200) is a piece of legislation that was approved by the U.S. Congress in May 2000. The stated purpose of this legislation is to assist the economies of sub-Saharan Africa and to improve economic relations between the United States and the region. After completing its initial 15-year period of validity, the AGOA legislation was extended on 29 June 2015 by a further 10 years, to 2025.