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Can Africa’s AGOA Trade Deal Survive Trump?

A worker harvests grapes at a farm near Groblersdal, South Africa.

Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg

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Recent events in Washington have raised hope that the African Growth and Opportunity Act — which offers preferential access to the US market — isn’t dead.