It had a long title: How to Kill a Country: Australia’s Devastating Trade Deal with the USA. First, an FTA with a country such as the US will only make sense to a developing country like ours when we have enough to export to that country. Why should we take up the FTA yet we can’t fully service the market access we have under Agoa? This is the level and pace of execution you need to make a bilateral FTA with the US meaningful. Which brings me to my second reason why the FTA with the US is no big deal.

Source: Daily Nation July 14, 2020 20:26 UTC