CARICOM Summit | Johnson Smith and Barbados counterpart to lead push to dismantle trade barriers

CARICOM discusses response as US tariff pause, expires July 9 - Caribbean News Global

By Okoye Henry KINGSTON, Jamaica, (JIS) – The CARICOM prime ministerial sub-committee on external trade negotiations met July 7 to strategise a response to the ‘America First’ trade policy, which imposes a 10 percent baseline tariff on CARICOM imports into the United States. The meeting, chaired by prime minister and new CARICOM chair, Andrew Holness, was held at the Jewel Grande in Rose Hall, St James. Holness said there is need for a united re…

CARICOM Summit | Johnson Smith and Barbados counterpart to lead push to dismantle trade barriers

Jamaica’s Foreign Minister Kamina Johnson Smith and Barbados’s Kerrie Symmonds will lead a CARICOM review to remove regional trade barriers, amid urgent calls to boost intra-regional commerce and respond to new United States tariffs. The move...