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US And Mauritius Meet To Discuss TIFA Implementation, by Mike Godfrey, for LawAndTax-News.com, Washington
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
US and Mauritian officials met this week to discuss implementation of
the United States-Mauritius Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA).
The meeting, which was co-chaired by Assistant US Trade Representative for
Africa, Florizelle Liser and Mauritian Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Anand Neewoor,
was the second held under the TIFA’s bilateral Council on Trade and Investment, which monitors trade and investment relations, identifies opportunities
for expanding trade and investment, and provides a forum for addressing challenges
in the two countries’ trade ties.
The TIFA Council was set up to facilitate a dialogue and help to increase commercial
and investment opportunities, by identifying and working to remove impediments
to trade and investment flows between the United States and Mauritius.
“The TIFA Council reviewed a common workplan that the United States and
Mauritius are jointly undertaking to implement the TIFA, including a wide-range
of programs and activities to support, facilitate, and ensure progress and success
in strengthening the US-Mauritian trade and investment relationship,”
explained Ms Liser.
The meeting provided the opportunity to review progress, identify challenges,
and chart the way forward for future work under the TIFA, according to a statement from the Office of the US Trade Representative.
During the TIFA Council
meeting, officials from the United States and Mauritius explored common objectives
– including cooperation in the World Trade Organization, implementation
of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, trade capacity building and technical
assistance, intellectual property protection, export diversification, trade
promotion, and development – and examined opportunities for a more comprehensive
trade and investment relationship.
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