CARICOM

About CARICOM

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is an organization of fifteen states and dependencies throughout the Caribbean

The primary objectives are: to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared and to coordinate foreign policy.

Read more about Caricom on the following website: https://caricom.org/

Member States

Member states of Caricom are:

Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Commonwealth of Dominica
Grenada
Republic of Haiti
Montserrat
Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Barbados
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Jamaica
Republic of Suriname
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Trade Agreements

Being a company inside Caricom enables making use of the treaties and trade agreements Caricom has.

In October 2008 Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Dominican Republic signed the CARIFORUM-EU Economic Partnership Agreement with the EU.

https://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/regions/caribbean/

On March 22, 2019, CARIFORUM Member Countries began signing an economic partnership agreement with the United Kingdom. The countries that will be covered by the CARIFORUM-UK EPA are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bahamas, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago.

http://www.sice.oas.org/TPD/CAR_GBR/CAR_GBR_e.ASP