The Department of Agriculture is recruiting interested U.S. exporters for its first 2020 trade mission, which will take place in Casablanca, Morocco, March 16-19. The mission will focus on boosting U.S. agricultural exports to North Africa and will include interested buyers from several countries in the region.
This will be the second USDA trade mission to Africa within six months, supporting the Donald Trump administration’s Prosper Africa initiative to foster two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa. With North Africa’s growing demand for food and feed products, the region is fertile ground for U.S. agricultural export sales, according to USDA.
Officials say Morocco is a promising market thanks to the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement and the country’s high-quality infrastructure and stable economy. In 2018, the country imported $595 million of U.S. agricultural and related products. The deadline to apply for the North Africa trade mission is January 16, 2020. Learn more by clicking here.