Workers perform a quality check inside the United Aryan textile factory at the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Nairobi on February 4, 2025. The factory may be in East Africa but the Wrangler's and Levi's jeans rolling off the production line are pure Americana destined for US stores like Walmart and JC Penny. The United Aryan factory on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi exists for one reason: the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a 25-year-old US law that gives duty-free access to thousands of goods made on the continent, particularly clothes. AGOA will expire in September unless President Donald Trump agrees to extend it -- a decision putting hundreds of thousands of African livelihoods on a knife-edge. (Photo by SIMON MAINA / AFP) (Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)