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Canada Offers Free Trade Deal To Caribbean,
by Leroy Baker, Tax-News.com, New York
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
During a tour of the region last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
announced plans to begin free trade negotiations with the Caribbean Community
countries, as part of efforts to bolster investment and trade links with the
region.
"One of the key purposes of my visit here is to launch free trade negotiations
between Canada and our CARICOM (Caribbean Community) partners. A free trade
agreement would complement and help further develop the regional cooperation
that you are already taking," Harper said on Thursday in a speech in Bridgetown,
Barbados, which currently holds the presidency of CARICOM. Canada exported C$1.2
billion worth of goods to the Caribbean Community in 2006.
"Now I know there is some skepticism within the region about free trade,"
he added. "But frankly, there is no better way to boost living standards
over the long term. And your region is following a proven path by working toward
a single trading block."
Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur said the region is looking for a "mature,
modern trade deal" with Canada that would include not only goods but services
and a dispute-settlement mechanism. However, he doubted whether all Caribbean
nations were ready for full-fledged free trade, saying the process must be nuanced
enough to respect the special circumstances of smaller, poorer islands.
Caribbean leaders decided at the 28th CARICOM Summit in Barbados earlier in
the month that the Caribbean Single Economy should be fully operational by 2015.
Last January, Owen Arthur expressed confidence that the member states are on
track to implement the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) in January
2008.
2006 saw substantial progress within CARICOM itself towards the creation of
a unified free trade area. Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname and Trinidad
and Tobago launched a limited version of the CSME in mid-year, while the OECS
states, including Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, BVI, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat,
St Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines signaled their
intention to form their own economic union, as well as committing to membership
of the CSME. In July, Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands, Dr Orlando
Smith, revealed that the territory's government is considering its future participation
in the CSME.
CARICOM negotiations with the USA for a free-trade area are also alive and
kicking, with a number of substantive meetings having taken place during the
last year.
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