Mahoney: ‘Model FTA’ with an African country ‘still in its early stages’

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is still in the “early stages” of realizing U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer’s goal of negotiating a “model” free trade agreement with an African country, Deputy USTR C.J. Mahoney said Wednesday. “USTR is quite interested in Africa at the present moment,” Mahoney said at a meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa. “Everyone is aware of Ambassador Lighthizer’s comments about our desire to do a model FTA with an...