C&H, the Chinese garment maker based in the Kigali Special Economic zone, which has heavily depended on the US as its export market destination is beginning to feel the pinch as the US moves to enforce restrictions on products from Rwanda under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
The duty free access to the US market under AGOA that Rwanda has been enjoying along with other Sub-Saharan African countries, was one of the key motivations for C&H starting a clothes manufacturing factory in Rwanda, and close sources say the suspension AGOA seem to be dampening its prospects in the country.
