Is US Ex-Im Bank promotion of Nigeria exports a free rider threatening more debt?

(ECA Watch, Paris, 30 March 2007) At a March 15, 2007 roundtable in Washington DC, the U.S. Export Import Bank briefed more than 70 U.S. exporters on the potential for Nigerian sales, raising the question of whether this constitutes free rider opportunism based on recent debt forgiveness for Nigeria.