Governments have been negotiating and signing trade deals for centuries. No big deal for experienced leaders, who regard it as normal government business.
Presidents and prime ministers do not negotiate trade deals; they have huge teams of highly qualified people doing that. Most of them do not have a clue of the finer mechanisms of trade deals, and understandably so. Therefore, signing ceremonies traditionally have been mere formalities without huge fanfare...
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