ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, May 14, CMC – Trade ministers from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) began a two-day meeting here against the backdrop of a changing global trade environment and the need for the sub-region to respond appropriately to those changes.
Grenada’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Export Development, Joseph Andall, told the sixth Council of Trade Ministers meeting that the OECS would need to strategise on dealing with changes being called for within the World Trade Organization (WTO), the United States new trading arrangements as well as the situation within the wider Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
Andall said with a functioning economic union and a fully operational customs union as well as the free circulation of goods, the OECS would be better positioned “to influence the speed and trajectory of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME)” that allows for the free movement of goods, skills, labour and services across the 15-member grouping.
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