Handbook for Civil Society: CARIFORUM-EPA

The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific (CARIFORUM) States and the European Union (EU) has been provisionally applied since 29th December, 2008.The EPA Implementation Unit in the CARIFORUM Directorate of the CARICOM Secretariat, as part ...
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THE CARIFORUM-EU EPA IN CONTEXT

​A Momentous Step Towards a New, Transformed Relationship The CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) was the first trade agreement of its kind to be concluded between the European Union (EU) and one of six African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) negotiating configur...
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Remarks by Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, Secretary - General (ag) Caribbean Community (CARICOM) On the Occasion Of the Thirty – Second Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED)

The myriad issues before this Thirty-Second Meeting of the Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) speak to the breadth and depth of the regional integration movement and its impact on the everyday life of the citizens of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). The discussions are taking plac...
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Remarks by Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, Secretary - General ( ag ) Caribbean Forum of A frican , Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM ) At the Eighteenth Meeting of the Council of Ministers Of The Caribbean Forum of African , Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Stated ( CARIFORUM ) Belize

It is with pleasure that I welcome you to this Eighteenth Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Forum of the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) States (CARIFORUM). You have come together in fulfillment of the mandate of the 17th Meeting of the Council of Ministers last November wh...
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Remarks by Ambassador Irwin LaRocque Assistant Secretary - General, Trade and Economic Int egration, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) At the Opening of the WTO REGIONAL FORUM ON AID FOR TRADE FOR THE CARIBBEAN Barbados

It is an honour for me to address you on behalf of Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, Secretary General (acting) of the Caribbean Community at this Regional Forum on Aid for Trade for the Caribbean. She has asked that I convey her best wishes for a stimulating and successful event. The Caribbean Commun...
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