The U.S Government says it will drop South Sudan and the Gambia from a duty-free trade program as from the 1^st of January next year.

A presidential proclamation on Tuesday said these countries have failed to meet the conditions, without specifying them.

President Barack Obama said Guinea-Bissau would be reinstated to a 14-year-old trade program giving African countries duty-free access to U.S. markets known as the African Growth and Opportunity Act or AGOA.

The U.S is pushing for United Nations action against South Sudan after fighting between government and the SPLA in Opposition forces.

The U.S. National Security Council has also voiced concerns over Gambia’s moves to block access to UN human rights investigators and enact new laws against homosexuality.

The United States said in June it would also drop Swaziland from the program.

The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Mawien Makol, says the government has not yet received the official notification from the U.S government regarding the presidential proclamation.

“It is of very big interest because such things are targeting African goal and we are part of the region and so when we are got from this kind of opportunities, will immediately affect our economic opportunities that we are actually offering to the regions and because United States in the region itself, are now trying to bring up this small investment opportunity.” HE said.

He continued , “And also as a new nation we are engaging ourselves also with the East African community now and those are the region that the US is trying to help with that kind of tool. And it would not be good for us to be so far from it now when we are actually catching up. And so that would immediately affect us and we don’t want that to happen.”

Ambassador Makol urged the U.S government to help the warring parties bring lasting peace to the country instead of dropping South Sudan from the duty-free trade program.