EC signs EPA with Cariforum countries

The Signatory Cariforum states are Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

Haiti has not yet signed the reciprocal preferential trade agreement but is expected to do so in the near future. Should it not sign the EPA, however, it will be deleted from the list of market access beneficiaries and the only benefit which will potentially be available will be under the Generalised System of Preference (GSP), said the EC.