Friday, Mar 31, 2006

#22 - Investing in Caribbean Competitiveness

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Lincoln Price, the RNM's Private Sector Liaison, talks about how the region's trade negotiators are working to include investment among the range of benefits for Caribbean exporters in the trade deals they cut with the European Union and other trade partners. TradeSpeak sums up investment.

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Friday, Mar 24, 2006

#21 - The Secrets of Successful Exporting

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Precision Woodworks of Guyana has become one of the world's top ten producers of fine leisure and garden furniture using indigenous materials. Precision's Ronnie Bulkan explains how his firm made it to the top among Guyana's exporters. This week's TradeSpeak explains the single market.

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Friday, Mar 17, 2006

#20 - Trade Power in Guyana

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Hear Guyana 's trade minister Clement Rohee explain the rationale behind negotiating trade agreements and Guyanese business leader Mark Harris on getting the private sector more involved in the region's external trade negotiations. And TradeSpeak gets around the Uruguay Round...

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Friday, Mar 10, 2006

#19. A Trade Power Dialogue.

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Ahead of the RNM's latest session with the private sector, Mark Harris, the head of the trade subcommittee of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry, gives Guyana's perspectives on the event. Later, Dame Billie Miller, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, talks about Caricom's bilateral trade agreements with four Spanish-speaking neighbours. And our TradeSpeak segment explains downstream dumping.

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Friday, Mar 03, 2006

#18. Of Trade and Labour

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The RNM's Senior Director Henry Gill gives some points to ponder on the impact of the region's external trade negotiations on labour and especially the trade in services, at a recent two-day conference on Trade and Labour Issues - Exploring Caricom's Interests. We also define what's meant in TradeSpeak by a buyer's market.

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