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ChampionedTrade / Africa

Introduced bipartisan legislation to renew and strengthen the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), extending the U.S.–sub-Saharan Africa trade preference program through 2041 (from its 2025 expiration).

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 95%

The promise is to introduce bipartisan AGOA-renewal legislation extending the U.S.-sub-Saharan Africa trade preference program to 2041, and the sources confirm Coons did exactly that AND led it. On the coons.senate.gov press release (reachable), the sentence "The AGOA Renewal and Improvement Act would extend AGOA until 2041." appears VERBATIM, and the opening names Coons first as an introducer of the AGOA Renewal and Improvement Act of 2024 (April 11, 2024), with a genuinely bipartisan cosponsor set (Risch, Rounds, Young R; Bennet, Van Hollen, Durbin D). The foreign.senate.gov release (reachable) independently confirms the April 11, 2024 bipartisan introduction and the 2041 extension. The congress.gov record for S.4110 returned an HTTP 403 to direct fetch (a known bot-block on that host), but its content was independently corroborated via search, which surfaced the congress.gov record showing the bill is sponsored by "Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Risch, Mr. Young, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Rounds, and Mr. Durbin)" — i.e., Coons is the sponsor of record, the strongest leadership evidence available. This clears the CHAMPIONED leadership bar (authored/led, not a mere vote). The enactment shortfall (bill did not become law; AGOA lapsed 2025-09-30; later only a short-term reauthorization) is outside the wording of this INTRODUCE-the-legislation promise and does not downgrade it. CHAMPIONED upheld.

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