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The Africans’ interest is to guard preferential export rules enshrined in the temporary African Growth and Opportunity Act, pass
The Africans’ interest is to guard preferential export rules enshrined in the temporary African Growth and Opportunity Act, pass
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2014-02-27
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The Africans’ interest is to guard preferential export rules enshrined in the temporary African Growth and Opportunity Act, passed by Congress in 2000. Tariff-free exports of some 6,000 goods from Africa to the United States are boosting trade and investment in southern Africa. Lesotho’s fast-growing textile industry depends almost entirely on Chinese investment in factories to make clothes for sale in the United States. The region also wants more access to America’s markets for fruit, beef and other agricultural goods.
American interest lies mainly in South Africa, by far the largest economy in the region. Services account for 60% of its GDP, and it increasingly dominates the rest of Africa in banking, information technology, telecom, retail and other areas. Just as British banks, such as Barclays, have moved their African headquarters to South Africa over the past year, American investors see the country as a platform to the rest of the continent.
Agreeing investment rules and resolving differences on intellectual property rights are the most urgent issues. American drug firms want to be part of the fast expansion in South Africa of production of anti-retroviral drugs, used against AIDS. By 2007 South Africa alone expects 1.2 m patients to take the drugs daily. The country might be the world’s biggest exporter of anti-AIDS drugs within a few years. Striking a bilateral deal now should make American investments easier.
But Mr. Zoellick’s greater concern is for multilateral trade talks that stalled in Cancun, Mexico, in September. Alec Erwin, his South African counterpart, helped to organize the G20 group of poor and middle-income countries that opposed joint American-EU proposals there; he is widely tipped to take over as head of the World Trade Organization late next year, and would be a useful ally.
So Mr. Zoellick is trying to charm his African partner by agreeing to drop support for most of a group of issues(known as "Singapore issues")that jammed up the talks at Cancun, and were opposed by poor countries; he says he also favors abolishing export subsidies in America — though only if Japan and the EU agree to do the same. That would please African exporters who say such subsidies destroy markets for their goods.
Mr. Zoellick’s efforts to make more friends may be paying off. Even though America has treated Africa very shabbily on trade in the past, Mr. Erwin hints it is easier doing business with America than with Europe or Japan. A small sign, but perhaps a telling one.
American drug makers want to get a share in the anti-AIDS drug production in South Africa in that______.
选项
A、the US domestic anti-AIDS drug market is shrinking quickly
B、American drug makers have a lot of extra capital to invest
C、the bilateral deal has made US investments much easier now
D、South Africa has a huge global market potential in these drugs
答案
D
解析
这是一道细节题。题干中的信号词为a share in the anti—AIDS drugproduction,出自于文章第三段第二句话中。文章第三段指出:美国的药品公司想在南非迅速扩大的抗病毒药品生产中占有一席之地,该药品是用来抵抗艾滋病的;到2007年时,仅南非就可望有120万病人每天服用该药:几年之内,南非可能成为世界上最大的抗艾滋病药品出口国。这说明,原因是南非的市场潜力很大。D说“南非在这些药品方面具有巨大的全球市场潜力”,这与文章的意思符合。文中没有提到A和B;C明显与文章的意思不符。
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