“Negotiations between SACU and the US, to conclude a free trade agreement,
have been stalled owing to substantive differences between the two sides on a
broad range of issues. This report examines the goods market access dimension
from the standpoint of additional market access that SACU could gain through
locking in and extending AGOA preferences. It concludes that, whilst there are
potential advantages to extending market access via the FTA, these are small in
scope and that the main areas of benefit lie outside tariff negotiations, in rules
of origin and US administration of trade remedies.”
