A PSA outlining the benefits of Competition Policy in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)
The EPA & CSME Standby Facility for Capacity Building is a pool of funds being managed by CDB and financed by the EU for trade relation projects in 15 CARIFORUM countries. The financing is available to governments and business support organisations.
The Community Public Procurement Notice Board is a web-based, collaborative system to facilitate the publication of procurement opportunities in the CARICOM Region among those countries participating in the CARICOM Public Procurement Regime.
The Document and Workflow Management System (DWMS) is a crucial component of the larger initiative to make the rights under the CSM more accessible and to ensure a higher level of efficiency and effectiveness in the processing of these rights. The system will contribute to the achievement of the full integration of the national markets of Member States of the Community into a single, unified and open market area.
Promoting Market Access Facilitation in CARICOM
The Caribbean Exporter Gateway (CARIBGATE) provides information on the market access conditions for products traded within the CSME and, for products from CARICOM Member States entering Cuba, Costa Rica or the Dominican Republic. Information on tariffs, Rules of Origin, Non-tariff measures (including SPS requirements, import licences and other duties and charges) and other information, will be available.
CSME stands for CARICOM Single Market & Economy.
The CSME Unit of the CARICOM Secretariat is the impementation office which assists the Member States in fulfilling the requirements of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
The purpose of this project is to provide the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat and its Member States with a functioning automated data management system for information exchange and networking among the national company registries and the CSME Unit regarding companies and other legal entities by:
a) completing the building of a secure regional database network among the company registries in Caricom's 12 Member States and connected to a central repository at the CSME Unit in Barbados;
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
The timeframes in the plan are as follows:
READ MOREBARBADOS has joined six other members of CARICOM in the signing of the Protocol of Contingency Rights.
Prime Minister of Barbados, the Hon. Mia Amor Mottley signed on behalf of Barbados during the final day of the 39th Regular Meeting of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in Montego Bay Jamaica on Friday evening.