Antigua and Barbuda signs CARIFORUM-UK EPA with UK

By Michelle Nurse Last updated Jun 7, 2019

Antigua & Barbuda’s High Commissioner to the UK, H.E. Karen-Mae Hill, joined Trade Policy Minister George Hollingbery in London to sign the agreement (Photo via Antigua News Room)

(Antigua News Room) Antigua and Barbuda has …signed the CARIFORUM-UK Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the trade continuity agreement signed between the UK and a series of countries in the Caribbean on 22 March, and in the UK in April.

UK businesses and consumers will benefit from the CARIFORUM-UK EPA which will maintain current arrangements with countries in the Caribbean soon after Britain leaves the EU.

Trade Policy Minister George Hollingbery signed the CARIFORUM-UK EPA on 22 March with Ministers and representatives from Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Trinidad & Tobago signed the CARIFORUM-UK EPA in London on April 1 and The Dominican Republic signed on April 4.