Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

9. Agency for International Development · Major · Needs Congress

Extend AGOA beyond 2025 with governance conditions

Partially done

276 9. Agency for International Development

“The next Administration should extend AGOA beyond its 2025 term but within a strategic framework that rewards good governance and pro–free market economic policies.”

What has happened

  1. Partially done

    Extended again, for longer, and still without conditions. Section 2008 of the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027 (Public Law 119-103) strikes "2026" and inserts "2028" in section 506B of the Trade Act of 1974 and section 112(g) of AGOA, and carries the regional apparel and third-country fabric provisions to 2028-12-31. The eligibility criteria are untouched and USTR's modernization review has produced no bill. Partial: the ask's first limb, extension, now reaches 2028; the governance-and-markets framework does not exist.

  2. Partially done

    USTR requested public comment on the "modernization" of AGOA — the first administration step toward a rewritten framework, with nothing enacted.

  3. Partially done

    AGOA lapsed on 2025-09-30. Section 5019 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (Public Law 119-75) extended it — and the third-country-fabric and regional apparel provisions — to 2026-12-31, retroactive to the lapse, with no change to the eligibility criteria: an extension, but a short one and without the governance-and-markets framework the Mandate asked for.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Section 5019 text read at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm (amends 19 U.S.C. 2466b and 3721(g), (b)(3)(A), (c)(1), striking “September 30, 2025” and inserting “December 31, 2026”, with retroactive application to entries after the lapse).
  • S. 2958 “AGOA Extension and Bilateral Engagement Act of 2025” (introduced 2025-09-30, referred to Senate Finance; congress.gov bill record) is the longer-term bill; no further action is recorded.
  • USTR’s annual eligibility-review notices (2025-05-30 for CY2026, 2026-06-30 for CY2027; in the federal records we keep and search) show the existing eligibility process continuing unchanged.
  • The next decision point was 2026-12-31; P.L. 119-103 §2008 moved it to 2028-12-31 (read in the enrolled bill on 2026-09-06; govinfo’s PLAW text was not yet posted). A rewritten AGOA would be the next event.
Action
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Object
Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
ID
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