Caribbean TradeBeat

Caribbean TradeBeat - the radio magazine - from the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery - aims to make the business of Caribbean trade talks your business. Caribbean TradeBeat keeps you informed and involved, as the CRNM works in the region's main negotiating theatres – from bilateral agreements to the global trade accord governed by the World Trade Organisation, the current Doha round. Hear the voices of the region's business community on how they meet the successes - or challenges - of global free trade and find more on how businesses, large or small, can help forge trade deals for the benefit of the Caribbean private sector - from securing better market access to developing innovative, sunrise industries and services. Write to Caribbean TradeBeat at privatesector@crnm.org. Produced by the CRNM with support from the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank. Presented by Julius Gittens.

Friday, Jun 30, 2006

#35. Special and different - OECS at 25

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In a special commemorative edition, CRNM Director General Ambassador Richard Bernal joins the celebration of a milestone in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. He looks back on a quarter-century of solid achievement, as Caricom's smaller economies - among the tiniest in the world - manage Caribbean integration and the perils and prospects of global trade. TradeSpeak explains what serious injury means in trade negotiation language...

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:00 PM |

Friday, Jun 23, 2006

#34. Of Trade and Innovation

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In the first of a two-part chat with Malcolm Spence, the CRNM's technical advisor on Intellectual Property, we explore the emerging link between trade and innovation and examine how Caribbean firms, particularly Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), can use intellectual property in products, process and services to give regional exports a competitive advantage. TradeSpeak explains what's meant by Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs).

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:22 PM |

Friday, Jun 16, 2006

#33. The Essential Guide to Trade in Services

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CRNM services trade analyst Natallie Rochester details the four modes of services supply in trade negotiations and other issues and opportunities arising from a series of national consultations on services. TradeSpeak explains the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:15 PM |

Friday, Jun 09, 2006

#32. Services Essential

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As the Caribbean moves away from traditional monocrop economies and into the lucrative world of services, what are the likely prospects - and pitfalls - of trading in services? Natallie Rochester, the CRNM's services trade analyst, outlines the issues raised in a series of national consultations, emphasizing the work of trade negotiators on the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with CARIFORUM. And TradeSpeak describes the four modes of services supply.

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 12:11 PM |

Friday, Jun 02, 2006

#31. More strategies for global competitiveness

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Of investment, innovation... and seamoss? Lincoln Price, the RNM's private sector liaison officer, outlines some more strategies for developing world-class products and services that were adopted at a seminar organised by the Caribbean Export Development Agency and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He also reveals where the region ranks on a global competitiveness scale. TradeSpeak explains sanitary and phytosanitary measures. Part 2 of 2.

Posted by Caribbean TradeBeat at 9:01 AM |