The day’s agenda will treat with questions concerning export strategies, investment promotion policies, market access to the EU, the role of national TPOs in the region and will also look at the Australian Trade Commission’s (AUSTRADE) New Exporter Development Programme.

Contributors will include Mr Philip Williams, Senior Advisor on Trade Support Services from International Trade Centre; Mr Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist of AUSTRADE; Mr. David O’Donovan, Former Senior Executive with IDA-Ireland (Industrial Development Agency) and the Head of Delegation, European Commission in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Ambassador Amos Tincani.

The ACS, through its Special Committee on Trade Development and External Economic Relations, is working towards building and consolidating an enhanced economic space for trade and investment in the Greater Caribbean. This partnership with Caribbean Export, an agency which aims to strengthen regional economies and to facilitate their insertion into the global economy, is expected to be of great benefit to participating institutions, as it will encourage an open exchange of experiences and best practices of trade promotion programmes.

About the ACS

The Association of Caribbean States is the organization for consultation, cooperation and concerted action in trade, transport, sustainable tourism and natural disasters in the Greater Caribbean. Its Member States are Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. Its Associate Members are Aruba , France on behalf of French Guiana , Guadeloupe , and Martinique , and the Netherlands Antilles .

For further information, please contact:

Denise Lewis Martínez
Communications Officer
Association of Caribbean States
E-mail: communications@acs-aec.org
Tel : 1-868-622-9575
Fax : 1-868-622-1653