Some CARICOM countries trying to block Guyanese goods – Ramsammy

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy says some CARICOM nations have been operating less than neighbourly by putting up non-tariff barriers to Guyanese products. At a conference for stakeholders in the coconut industry last week he told those gathered that it was an issue the government has to tackle aggressively. “They study us more than we study (ourselves); they know exactly what we have so for example they want the CET (Common External Tariff) for sugar, they know exactly how much we can give them so they ask for more than that.