The United States will visit Morocco to draw up new trade agreements

The United States and Morocco have a long-standing and solid economic relationship. Since the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was approved in 2004 and implemented in March 2006, trade between the two powers has grown year on year. 

In this context, representatives from 15 US states and leaders from federal agencies will visit the Alawite nation with the aim of reaching better agreements for the export of food products. This news was confirmed by the Moroccan ambassador to the United States, Youssef Amrani, through a post on his official social network profiles. 

‘A major US trade mission will visit Morocco in May 2025,’ the Moroccan ambassador to Washington confirmed. 

This rapprochement of the United States with Morocco once again highlights the good bilateral relations that exist between the two administrations. This is even more significant given that the US is applying tariffs to almost all imports from all kinds of countries, from China, Mexico and Canada to the countries of the European Union. 

In the words of the Moroccan diplomat, this trade mission by the United States will offer companies from both countries the opportunity to open up new trade routes and it is hoped that opportunities can be achieved that will benefit Americans and Moroccans in terms of the export of agricultural and food products.

Trade between the two countries has made the American giant Morocco's leading investment partner, with a total of 730 million dollars invested in 2023. Since the approval of the FTA, Moroccan agricultural exports to the United States have tripled, and exports from the United States to Morocco have doubled. 

Exports increased by 40% between 2021 and 2023, reaching 1.37 billion, of which 900 million were related to agricultural trade. Washington mainly buys phosphate fertilisers and agricultural products. Imports, on the other hand, reached 530 million.

This visit by US leaders of federal agencies will be the second since, in December 2024, 26 agri-food companies, 21 cooperatives and 14 representatives of agricultural departments were in Morocco renegotiating the conditions of the free trade agreements. 

On that occasion, the administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture, Daniel Whitley, pointed out that Morocco is one of Washington's great opportunities to penetrate the African market, thanks to the potential agreements that the Alawite nation can achieve with other African countries such as Ivory Coast, Gambia or Senegal.