The Global Director of Stanford Seed, Jeff Prickett, paid a visit to Madagascar to hold an information session at Carlton Anosy about a couple of programs they are running. This institute is looking for promising business leaders across the African continent to enroll in their programs.

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is a nonreciprocal unilateral trade preference program that grants duty-free treatment to U.S. imports of eligible products from eligible Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. More than 6,400 tariff lines are covered under AGOA, allowing duty-free and largely quota-free access to the United States.