The Story of trade

TradeGeorgetown:  The story of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)’s performance in the realm of trade will unfold Thursday when statistics stakeholders meet in Georgetown for a seminar on the Community’s trade experience over the past four decades.

The seminar is being held as the Community celebrates its 40th anniversary, and is one of the activities to mark International Year of Statistics which is being observed this year.

The 30-minute presentation on Thursday will explore the context of the changes in the external environment and the effects they have had on the Community’s trade performance, and will provide insight into the trade experience since the establishment of the CARICOM Single Market in 2006. The distribution of total and intra-regional imports and exports among Member States and by trading partners including the European Union, given the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), will also be explored.

Representatives of the media are invited to cover the following:

Event:   Seminar on CARICOM’s Trade Performance

Date:     25 July, 2013

Time:    10 o’clock

Venue: Executive Lounge, CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana.