Standards Alliance, ANSI's public-private partnership with U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has been expanded to allow ANSI to engage with 5 additional countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mozambique, Senegal, and Zambia. Partnership expansion provides technical assistance to developing countries specifically related to implementation of the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement. Expansion was made possible through Trade Africa initiative.