<h1>Trade agreement obligations require tariff cuts, import and defence commitments, triggering transparency and sovereignty concerns.</h1> The bilateral package imposes binding commercial and defence commitments requiring tariff reductions, duty-free access for specified exports, mandated imports of US agricultural and energy commodities, and increased purchases of US military hardware while limiting procurement from certain other countries. The deals were negotiated under a Non-Disclosure Agreement, and commentators question whether an unelected interim government had authority to conclude secretive, long-term obligations without parliamentary oversight, raising transparency, fiscal stability, and sovereignty concerns.