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Uganda has started feeling the heat of its anti-homosexual legislation. Several Ugandan textile makers are getting their products rejected by buyers in the US on this count, creating consternation among textile exporters to the lucrative US market under a duty-free program
Uganda has started feeling the heat of its anti-homosexual legislation. Several Ugandan textile makers are getting their products rejected by buyers in the US on this count, creating consternation among textile exporters to the lucrative US market under a duty-free program. Several companies in the United States under the Africa Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) have stopped buying textiles from Uganda.
This was revealed by President Yoweri Museveni during the passing-out of Uganda Prisons Service officers at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala recently. The homosexuals in the US are interfering with our export of textiles. Some of the orders have been cancelled there, Museveni said. He added that he was not concerned about that because the money Uganda has been squandering with second-hand clothes, and importing other people’s fabrics, is much more than what Uganda was earning from the sales to the US.
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AGOA is an initiative of the US government that began in 2000 where eligible countries, including Uganda, export textiles and agricultural products to America tariff-free and quota-free.
