“Commercial Awareness Is Global.”
There are principally three reasons why Jamaica changed its Zone Regime from Free Zone to SEZ and these are 1.WTO compliance, 2. IMF Agreement and 3.Improving Jamaica’s global competitiveness.
The global economic governance system not only limits but at times directs policy choice/options of policy makers especially in the developing world. It will come as no surprise then that policy makers ands investors alike take a keen interest in this system.
The link between trade and health policies has become all the more important given #covid-19 pandemic. All 17 UN SDGs provide great policy guidance to policymakers at all levels on how to effectively deal with the Covid-19 crisis.
Understanding the opportunities and threats that free trade agreements provide to a specific industry or company are critical to success. Trade agreements are the roadmaps for global supply and value chains.
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For Jamaica Trade Facilitation is a must. Trade facilitation is not just a buzz word but something that is real. Why? It has to be. For small island developing countries like Jamaica we have long had a ‘export or die’ mindset. However, in today’s globalized world, with its complex of supply and global value chains, its not simply about exporting
The importance of the Appellate Body to the WTO and the whole global trading system cannot be over stated. It is the ability, and one could argue a key distinguishing feature, of the WTO as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to effectively resolve trade disputes between its members that underpin the global trading system.
By: Ainsley Brown The tit for tat trade battles, one could even say bordering on a trade war, has entered a new area – Green. More precisely the U.S. is investigating China’s alleged subsidization of its green technology sector (wind, solar and advanced batteries, etc.) in breach of WTO rules. The US Trade Representative has launched the investigation under section
US Chicken Being Dumped, Says China
By: Ainsley Brown
The seemingly endless trade rows between the United States and China continue unabated.
What is it this time? Tires? Steel? Autos? Or maybe intellectual property protection? No, no, not this time, this time it’s chicken – more specifically the importation of US chicken into the Chinese market.
This however is not a new skirmish but rather one that begun earlier this year when China…
By: Ainsley Brown It seems like there is more bad news for US exporters of Chicken to China – get ready for a whole new round of tariffs. China has over the years become the largest export market for US chicken with sales of over US$722 million in 2008. The Chinese market for US exporters is a win/win; representing a