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.
#79. Straight from the headlines
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In an update on topical issues from the trade front, the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, says time is running out on a global trade accord aimed at helping developing nations advance through liberalised trade. And Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer says his country won't give up its fight with the United States on Internet gaming. TradeSpeak is in the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC).
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Friday, May 18, 2007#78. Sage advice.
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Sir Shridath Ramphal, the Caribbean Community's second chief trade negotiator, now retired, offers his views on a wide range of issues facing the Caribbean - from the Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME) to the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) to trading relationships with the United States and the United Kingdom to the necessity of 'oneness'. TradeSpeak enters into accession.
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Friday, May 11, 2007#77. View from Geneva (part two of two)
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As the international community grapples with the most complex free trade negotiations in history, the Caribbean has been having its say on the kind of development-friendly deal it wants. CRNM Trade Officer Alejandro Gomez concludes his update on the state of play in the talks. TradeSpeak expands on the Doha Development Round.
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Friday, May 04, 2007#76. View from Geneva
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The Geneva-based World Trade Organisation (WTO) has resumed talks towards concluding the long-standing and deeply complex Doha Round of global trade negotiations leading to a new deal for freer trade around the world. Stationed in Geneva, CRNM Trade Officer Alejandro Gomez presents an update on the state of play in the talks. TradeSpeak explains Trade Facilitation.
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