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.
#75. Trade Power Dialogue in Belize
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As trade negotiators prepare to hold the latest Trade Power Dialogue in Belize, General Agreement on Trade in Services or GATS, Lincoln Price, the CRNM's private sector liaison officer, assesses the impact of the Trade Power Dialogues and other private sector outreach activities so far and explains why trade negotiators consider Belize to be CARICOM's gateway to Latin America. TradeSpeak explains the General Agreement on Trade in Services or GATS.
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Friday, Apr 20, 2007#74. Dateline Doha
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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Director General Pascal Lamy travelled to the Caribbean to meet with the region's trade ministers, as negotiations resume to finalise a global blueprint for trade liberalisation, known as the Doha Development Agenda. Ambassador Richard Bernal, CARICOM's chief trade negotiator, puts the Caribbean's perspective on the on-again, off-again talks, now on... again. TradeSpeak addresses one of the Doha accord's key issues - Non-agricultural Market Access (NAMA).
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Friday, Apr 13, 2007#73. Blending fair trade with free trade
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Eastern Caribbean farmers and NGOs work out a practical response to a changing trade environment while taking a keen interest in negotiations for a European Union-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreenment (EPA) in the hope that it could open up new export opportunities for them in the EU. Taking part are Cleve Scott of global charity Oxfam, Jethro Greene of the Eastern Caribbean Trading Agriculture and Development Organization (ECTAD), Eustace Vitalis of Sandals St Lucia and St Lucian farmers Marc Remy and David Hippolyte. TradeSpeak explains the fair trade concept.
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Friday, Apr 06, 2007# 72. Game Over
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The World Trade Organisation has ruled that Washington has failed to comply with an original ruling which found Washington guilty of unfair trade practices by banning competition from lucrative internet gaming services in St John's. The man who led Antigua and Barbuda's legal challenge, international lawyer Mark Mendel, tells Caribbean TradeBeat the US has been stalling for a long time but he now hopes the Americans realize they can't win. TradeSpeak exposes protectionism...
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