Press Release
THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS:
IMPLICATIONS FOR TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Stephen Lande – President, Manchester Trade Ltd (Washington DC)
The November US Presidential elections are already regarded as an introduction of a new era in American politics. But what will the impact of this historic election be in Africa, as the world’s economic superpower changes Administration?
What is the future of AGOA?
Will the US-SA Bi-National Commission be revived?
How will the US react to the European Economic Partnership Approach?
Will US investors find more incentive to come to Africa?
What will the US posture be on Chinese economic expansion in Africa?
Aid for trade, or just aid?
How do multinationals operating in Africa need to position themselves?
Stephen Lande, President of Manchester Trade Ltd, a leading Washington DC-based consultancy is exceptionally positioned to
address these critical issues.
This is a unique opportunity to hear a first-hand analysis of these key issues from someone who has been at the coal-face of US trade issues for decades.
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Stephen Lande, President, is a distinguished international trade expert in the United States. Mr. Lande is Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and has lectured widely in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Lande has been involved in international trade since the 1960s. He was initially assigned as a Foreign Service Officer to the Economic Bureau of the Department of States and then to American Embassies in Athens and in Luxembourg. He had a twelve year career with the Office of the United State Trade Representative as the Senior Trade negotiator and the first of a long-line of Assistant USTRs. In this role Mr. Lande negotiated many bilateral and multilateral trade agreements on behalf of the US Government in Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
Mr. Lande is viewed by many to be the "Father” of both the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), and an early force in creating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). More recently, he has been directly involved with U.S., Central American and African governments and businesses in advancing the approval of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), improvements to the Caribbean Basin Initiative, the spread bilateral of Free Trade Agreements (FTA’s), and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
To book your place at the above Breakfast Briefing, please follow the link to our webpage as below.
https://www.erassociates.co.za/bookings.asp?ID=4
Date: 24 October
Time: 09:30 am – 12 noon
Venue: Houghton Boardroom, 17 5th Street, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
Thank you
CANDY RICHARD
Executive Research Associates