To amend the African Growth and Opportunity Act to exclude from eligibility each sub-Saharan African country that does not effectively enforce its environmental laws and fulfill its international environmental obligations.

This bill changes the African Growth and Opportunity Act, a U.S. trade program for sub-Saharan African countries. It adds a new requirement that a country must effectively enforce its environmental laws, regulations, and other legal measures and fulfill its international environmental obligations, including public health obligations, to be eligible. It also changes the Trade Act of 1974 so that eligibility requirements are applied as they are in effect on the date the President designates a country, rather than as they were when the original Act was passed.

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• Lloyd Doggett Democrat sponsor
• 4 cosponsors