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On the recordJune 21, 2023
I find it remarkable that we have had a 200-plus-year relationship with Africa and we did not have an African trading policy officially until 2000--it's rather reprehensible.
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Jonathan Jackson
Democratic · Virginia

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Criticism of the lack of an official U.S. trading policy with Africa until 2000.

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