Africa-Press – Angola. The Head of State, João Lourenço, meet his North American counterpart, Joe Biden, on Thursday, at the White House, carrying in his luggage a positive trade balance of almost one billion dollars and an investment of another thousand million in the Lobito Corridor.
According to data from the North American authorities, cited by Lusa, last year the country sold goods and services, the overwhelming majority of which were oil to the United States of America (USA), worth 1.6 billion dollars. .
In the regional context, Angola is the US’s third largest trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, “mainly due to its oil exports, while US sales include machinery, aircraft, poultry, and iron and steel products”, reads one report by the State Department, equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in European governments, on the relationship between the largest economy in the world and the second largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa.
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