Africa-Press – Angola. Angola will export, on Thursday, the first mixed food products to the United States of America (USA) without customs duties, through the Angolan company Foodcare Lda, within the framework of the North American Act on Growth and Opportunity for Africa (AGOA ).
According to a note from the US Embassy in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe sent, the event that marks the export of products to the North American market will take place at the Foodcare Lda facilities, located in the Logistics and Distribution Center of Luanda , in Viana, in Luanda.
“The U.S. government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has funded the Southern Africa Trade and Investment (ATI) Program, which facilitates the duty-free export of goods to the United States under of the North American Law on Growth and Opportunity for Africa, which allows access to approximately seven thousand diverse products from sub-Saharan African countries to the North American market”, the note reads.
Last year, Foodcare represented the country with its diversity of locally produced products at the “Summer Fancy Food Show” in New York, an international food fair that has been taking place in the USA for 66 years.
About Foodcare
Opened in 2019, resulting from an investment of 52 million kwanzas, Foodcare is a family company specializing in the processing of different types of organic foods, such as Muteta, Kizaca, mushrooms, peanut butter, catatu, turtulho, yam flour, tapioca starch sweet, among others.
The brand of the products is “mavu” which means land in Kimbundu, one of the national languages.
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