The East Africa Trade and Investment Hub promotes two-way trade with the U.S. under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and facilitates investment and technology to drive East African trade growth intra- regionally and to global markets. The Hub is the U.S. Government’s flagship project under the Trade Africa initiative.

USAID has a strong history of supporting Ethiopian companies to export under AGOA through its trade hub projects. The USAID East Africa Trade Hub (Trade Hub) began working in Ethiopian footwear in 2012. In just over a year, they facilitated over $1.5 million in sales to the U.S. In 2013, Ethiopia exported $35 million through AGOA. The Trade Hub supported 30 percent of this.