Caribbean TradeBeat
is supported by the Multilateral Investment Fund of the
Inter-American Development Bank, which is geared towards
building awareness and strengthening the private sector's
role in the Caribbean Community's External Trade
Negotiations.
About Caribbean TradeBeat…
A
weekly ten-minute radio magazine aims to make the business
of Caribbean trade talks
your
business. Caribbean TradeBeat
- from the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery - keeps
you informed and involved, as CARICOM works in the world
of international trade.
On
Caribbean TradeBeat, follow the RNM's trade negotiators
and advisers and their work in the region's main negotiating
theatres – from bilateral agreements with Latin American and
North American nations to the European Union to the
multilateral trade agreement governed by the World Trade
Organisation, the current Doha round. You'll also hear the
voices of the region's business community on how they meet
the successes - or challenges - of global free trade.
Find
out how you and your business, large or small, can play your
part in forging the kind of trade deals for the benefit of
the Caribbean private sector - from securing better market
access to developing innovative, sunrise industries and
services.
Write
to Caribbean TradeBeat at
privatesector@crnm.org.
Produced by the RNM with support from the Multilateral
Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Presented by Julius Gittens.
MESSAGE FROM CARIBBEAN TRADEBEAT
TO: All stations
Date: December 15, 2007
Caribbean TradeBeat will cease current
production with its 108th and final episode
(#2007/49) as of December 31 st 2007.
However, a series of "Best of" shows,
which accounts for the vast majority of programmes, will be
compiled shortly to guide continued rebroadcast of the
series. These programmes are timeless and do not contain
time-sensitive material. We would be very pleased if you
continued broadcasting these programmes not only to fulfil
any commercial or programming obligations you may have but
also in the interest of continued public education on
international trade issues.
The list of "Best of" shows will be available
very soon.
The complete archive of the series has moved
to
http://caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com and
remains available for download and broadcast on the same
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For further details, and to receive the
"Best of Caribbean TradeBeat" programme list, email
producer Julius Gittens at
gittensj@gmail.com. We
would also be grateful to know which stations will continue
rebroadcasting the series.
Thank you so very much for your continued
support over the last two years and your commitment to
contributing to getting listeners more informed and involved
in Caribbean trade policy issues.
Julius Gittens
Producer, Caribbean TradeBeat
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Listen
to past shows from our audio vault:
#01.
Welcome to Caribbean TradeBeat – In the first edition
of the series, hear the RNM's Director-General Ambassador
Richard Bernal, CARICOM's lead trade negotiator – on a
fresh approach to trade talks around the world. Also, our
cover story: new partnerships for involving business in
global trade talks… A chat with one of the Eastern
Caribbean's top trade advisors - Claudius Preville -
as the RNM hits the road, advising Caribbean business
leaders about what regional trade negotiators are doing, and
seeking the participation and support of the business
community.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#02.
The view from the top – The region's main private
sector body explains why the Caribbean business community
needs to be engaged in international trade talks… The
president of the Caribbean Association of Industry and
Commerce (CAIC), James Moss-Solomon asks is there the
right kind of environment to foster the rise of a
Caribbean's own version of a Bill Gates? Also, Joan
Guthrie , who coordinates the Inter-American Development
Bank's Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) Project at the RNM
describes how the MIF project – which supports Caribbean
TradeBeat - is intended to help the RNM reach out to
Caribbean business, and why…
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#03.
Sunrise on the horizon
– Presenter Julius Gittens visits Lenstec to learn
from CEO Ian Hickling how an innovative Caribbean
company is on the cutting edge of global trade and pointing
the way forward in globalization. Also, hear
from Dr. Lawson Nurse of the Barbados Private Sector
Trade Team on how the business community's voice is heard as
that country develops its international trade policy.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#04.
At your service - Trading in ideas and services can
put the Caribbean on the global trade map - from a hit song
to high-tech services. In a special edition, the RNM's
Ramesh Chaitoo, Services Trade Specialist, tells
Caribbean TradeBeat about the RNM's efforts to bring
Caribbean trade in services to market and why it needs your
help…
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#05.
After Mar Del Plata – This episode is taken straight
from the headlines, days after the fourth Summit of the
Americas failed to jumpstart stalled talks on the Free Trade
Area of the Americas (FTAA). Find out from CARICOM's chief
trade negotiator on why the failure in Argentina only gives
the Caribbean a little more time to prepare for a new era of
free trade… With RNM Director General
Ambassador Richard
Bernal.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#06.
Destination Hong Kong - As CARICOM trade
ministers head to the World Trade Organisation's Sixth
Ministerial Conference - the latest
negotiations to finalise the global blueprint for trade
liberalisation, known as the Doha Development Agenda -
Ambassador Richard Bernal, CARICOM's chief trade
negotiator, sets the region's course before - and beyond
- the mid-December meeting. And Dr. Lawson Nurse of the
Barbados Private Sector Trade Team describes how the
private sector in a CARICOM nation is working with local
trade officials ahead of the talks.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#07. Behind the Mas' – A conversation
with Peter Minshall, the iconic Trinidadian carnival
designer who, more than any other, has merged mas' into
the worlds of fine art and theatre. There's a powerful
message behind the costumes and characters pointing the
way to Caribbean innovation and creativity on the global
stage…
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#08.
The RNM's new face
- There's a new face among Caribbean trade negotiators, and
it's the face of business. Meet
Lincoln Price,
the R-N-M's new point man on the private sector. His job: to
find out the needs and interests of the Caribbean private
sector and build a relationship between the business
community and the region's trade negotiators.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#09.
No longer business
as usual - As Caribbean business and trade
negotiators begin a new partnership, Caribbean TradeBeat
hears more from
Lincoln Price, the R-N-M's new private
sector liaison, on his quest to understand the needs and
interests of the Caribbean private sector while sharing
vital new information about the latest developments in the
world of trade and trade negotiations… Penultimate programme
of the 2005 season.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#10.
2005 - The Year in
Trade. In the final edition for the
year, Caribbean TradeBeat highlights some of the key
developments in trade negotiations and looks forward to some
of the key challenges early in the New Year -- with
Ambassador Richard Bernal in Hong
Kong and Dr. Andre
Gordon of the Jamaica Exporters Association
(JEA) in Kingston.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#11.
2006 - The Year Ahead
In Trade. In the first edition for the
year, Caribbean TradeBeat looks ahead to a series of
face-to-face encounters between the region's trade
negotiators and the private sector, beginning in St. Kitts
on January 26, with Lincoln Price, the
RNM's Private Sector Liaison. We also examine the new and
important alliances the Caribbean forged with the world's
small economies to make sure their voices were heard at the
Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong -- with
Ambassador Richard Bernal. And in
TradeSpeak, find out what reciprocity
means...
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#12. 2006-02. The
CSME and global trade. With the launch of
the Caricom Single Market - the Community's most ambitious
development since its formation in 1973 - set for January
30, Caribbean TradeBeat asks how can the CSM help make the
region more competitive
globally? We
put the concerns of the private sector by Guyanese executive
Mark Harris
to the programme manager of Caricom's CSME Unit,
Ivor Carryl.
Also, Lincoln
Price , the RNM's Private Sector Liaison
shows how the first of a series of encounters with the
region's trade negotiators, beginning in St. Kitts on
January 26th, can help the private sector's bottom line. And
in TradeSpeak
, find out what
M-F-N
means...
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#13.
2006-03.
Cementing a place in global competitiveness. Group
CEO of the TCL Group of Companies, Dr. Rollin
Bertrand, is our special guest as we hear how a
pan-Caribbean giant grew from a state-owned enterprise and
is positioning itself to take on global competition in
cement and concrete manufacturing and packaging. He also
shares ideas on how trade negotiations can contribute to a
globally competitive Caribbean.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#14. 2006-04.
Inside a Trade Power Dialogue. Caribbean
TradeBeat takes you inside the RNM's first private sector
outreach event for 2006 as it shares practical advice on how
Caribbean firms can compete successfully on the global
market. With Dr. Claudius Preville, the
RNM's trade policy advisor to the OECS and the St
Kitts-Nevis Minister of Foreign Affairs, International
Trade, Industry and Commerce, Dr. Timothy Harris.
Also, our TradeSpeak segment explains trade
facilitation.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#15.
2006-05.
Inside a Trade
Power Dialogue - Part 2. More stories of
success and challenge from Caribbean companies that have
gone global, and the lessons to be learned from boosting
exports. They shared their stories at the recent St
Kitts-Nevis Trade Power Dialogue, the RNM's first private
sector outreach event for 2006. Taking part are
Mahesh Nariani
of Sun Island
Clothes Ltd,
José Rosa
of cable television components-maker
Kajola-Kristada Ltd. and
Lincoln Price,
the RNM's private sector liaison. Also, our
TradeSpeak
segment explains
country of origin.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#16.
2006-06.
After the CBI. The Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI)
will expire in 2008, and with it, several trade preferences
between Caricom and its biggest trading partner, the United
States. Lincoln Price,
the RNM's private sector liaison, looks back at a trade
agreement that harks back to a Cold War past and looks ahead
to its likely replacement, a Caricom-US bilateral trade
agreement. He suggests how the private sector can shape the
kind of post-CBI deal its wants. Fittingly, our
TradeSpeak segment
discusses what's meant by a partial
scope agreement.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#17.
2006/07 - Rum - A Caribbean invention.
A rich blend of unique Guyanese heritage and modern know-how
is behind the world-class
El Dorado
brand of rums and puts a centuries-old industry at the
pinnacle of Caribbean trade.
Yesu Persaud
of Demerara Distillers tells the story of his firm's success
and the challenges and opportunities for this uniquely
Caribbean spirit and the region's other exports on world
markets.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#18.
2006-08. Of
Trade and Labour. The RNM's Senior Director
Henry Gill gives some points to ponder on the impact
of the region's external trade negotiations on labour and
especially the trade in services, at a recent two-day
conference on Trade and Labour Issues - Exploring
Caricom's Interests. We also define what's meant in
TradeSpeak by a buyer's market.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#19.
2006-09. A Trade Power Dialogue.
Ahead of the RNM's latest session with the private sector,
Mark Harris,
the head of the trade subcommittee of the Georgetown Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, gives Guyana's perspectives on the
event. Later, Dame
Billie Miller, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, talks about Caricom's
bilateral trade agreements with four Spanish-speaking
neighbours. And our TradeSpeak segment explains
downstream
dumping.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#20.
-
Trade Power in Guyana
- Hear Guyana 's trade minister Clement
Rohee explain
the rationale behind negotiating trade agreements and
Guyanese business leader Mark
Harris on
getting the private sector more involved in the region's
external trade negotiations. And TradeSpeak gets around the
Uruguay Round...
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#21. -
The Secrets of Successful Exporting -
Precision Woodworks of Guyana has become one of the world's
top ten producers of fine leisure and garden furniture using
indigenous materials. Precision's
Ronnie Bulkan
explains how his firm made it to the top among Guyana's
exporters. This week's TradeSpeak explains the
single market.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#22. -
Investing in Caribbean Competitiveness
-
Lincoln Price,
the RNM's Private Sector Liaison, talks about how the
region's trade negotiators are working to include investment
among the range of benefits for Caribbean exporters in the
trade deals they cut with the European Union and other trade
partners. TradeSpeak sums up
investment.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#23. -
Europe,
the Caribbean and Economic Partnership.
Amid the din of protestors and debate, what really will a
new deal between Europe and its former colonies in the
Caribbean to replace the Lome trade and aid pact really
mean? And where are the talks now? Hear from two
sides' lead negotiators,
Carl Falkenburg
of the European Commission and the RNM's
Ambassador Richard Bernal.
And TradeSpeak
explains the
Cotonou Agreement.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#24.
Trade Power to St
Lucia - A preview of the Trade Power
Dialogue set for St Lucia on April 18, as trade negotiators
hit the road again to meet exporters large and small. Hear
more from Lincoln
Price , the CRNM's Private Sector Liaison.
We also explain the
General Agreement on Trade
in Services (GATS) in
TradeSpeak.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#25.
The future of US-Caricom
Trade. As trade ministers review
a two-decades-old unilateral package of trade preferences
for CARICOM exports to the United States, CRNM Director
General Ambassador
Richard Bernal looks back on recent meetings
with the US Trade Representative Rob Portman, and looks
ahead to a possible future bilateral trade deal between
CARICOM and its largest trade partner.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#26.
More secrets of
successful exporting.
Yesu Persaud
of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) shares more of his
firm's success and the challenges and opportunities for a
uniquely Caribbean rum. The world-class
El Dorado
brand of rums is a rich blend of unique Guyanese heritage
and modern know-how and puts a centuries-old industry at the
pinnacle of Caribbean trade.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#27.
Notes of concern.
As the CRNM continues to examine the Caribbean's trials and
challenges in breaking into export markets, the
internationally acclaimed St Lucian jazz guitarist
Ronald "Boo" Hinkson
sounds notes of frustration while he and his music
move around the world, putting St Lucia on the map. He
shared his views on developing a culture of international
competitiveness at the CRNM's latest TradePower dialogue.
Also this, TradeSpeak
explains what's a
natural person.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#28.
Challenges of
international competitiveness. Hear one of
St Lucia's biggest exporters, the rum-maker
St Lucia Distillers,
about the challenges of trading in the Caribbean and beyond.
And find out what's meant by
non-tariff barriers
and non-tariff
measures in
TradeSpeak.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#29. How to make trade negotiations your business
- Basically, all
Lincoln Price really wants to do is help Caribbean
exporters make more money from international trade. The
CRNM's private sector liaison officer shows how firms and
entrepreneurs can make the business of external trade
negotiations their
business. In a recent talk in St Lucia, he gave the
local private sector four things to do...
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#30. Strategies
for international competitiveness.
In the first programme of
a two-part series,
Lincoln Price,
the RNM's private sector liaison officer reports on how
experts and exporters strategised to improve international
competitiveness for Caribbean goods and services, at a
seminar in Barbados organised by Caribbean Export
Development Agency and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Also,
in TradeSpeak, we explain
competition
policy.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#31.
More
strategies for global competitiveness.
Of investment, innovation... and seamoss? Lincoln
Price, the RNM's private sector liaison
officer, outlines some more strategies for developing
world-class products and services that were adopted at
a seminar organised by the Caribbean Export Development
Agency and the Commonwealth Secretariat. He also reveals
where the region ranks on a global competitiveness scale.
TradeSpeak
explains
sanitary and phytosanitary measures. Part 2
of 2.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#32. Services Essential -
As the Caribbean moves away from traditional monocrop
economies and into the lucrative world of services, what are
the likely prospects - and pitfalls - of trading in
services? Natallie
Rochester, the CRNM's services trade
analyst, outlines the issues raised in a series of national
consultations, emphasizing the work of trade negotiators on
the European Union's Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA)
with CARIFORUM. And
TradeSpeak describes the
four modes of services
supply.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#33. The Essential Guide to Trade in Services - CRNM
services trade analyst
Natallie Rochester
details the four modes of services supply in trade
negotiations and other issues and opportunities arising from
a series of national consultations on services.
TradeSpeak
explains the
General
Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#34. Of Trade and Innovation
- In the first of a two-part chat with
Malcolm Spence,
the CRNM's technical advisor on Intellectual Property, we
explore the emerging link between trade and innovation and
examine how Caribbean firms, particularly Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), can use intellectual
property in products, process and services to give regional
exports a competitive advantage.
TradeSpeak
explains what's meant by
Intellectual Property
Rights (IPRs).
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#35.
Special and
different - OECS at 25.
In a special commemorative edition, CRNM Director
General
Ambassador Richard Bernal joins the
celebration of a milestone in the Organisation of
Eastern Caribbean States. He looks back on a
quarter-century of solid achievement, as Caricom's
smaller economies - among the tiniest in the world -
manage Caribbean integration and the perils and
prospects of global trade.
TradeSpeak
explains what
serious injury means
in trade negotiation language...
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#36. From nano-firms to mega-profits. CRNM
Director General
Ambassador Richard Bernal has been making
waves in the Caribbean's business circles with his new paper
that argues that even the region's largest firms are minute
compared with the world's largest multinational
corporations. He makes a case for developing globally
competitive Caribbean firms beyond the confines of Caricom
economies and the limits of traditional definitions of small
businesses. TradeSpeak
explains market
power.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#37.
Destination Europe - part one.
In the first
of our comprehensive guides to an agreement meant to replace
aid with trade, we explain the proposed Economic Partnership
Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and its former
Caribbean colonies - now considered trade partners on equal
terms. Junior Lodge, the CRNM's technical coordinator
in Brussels on the EPA negotiations, joins us and on
TradeSpeak, the European Union is described.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#38. Expowering OECS Exporters -
The CRNM hits the road again to help the Eastern Caribbean
private sector become more informed so it can be more
actively involved in exploring new markets and increasing
market share. Dr.
Claudius Preville, the CRNM Trade Policy
Advisor and OECS trade representative, speaks ahead of two
Trade Power Dialogues, in Kingstown, St Vincent, on July
25th and St. George's, Grenada on July 27th.
TradeSpeak
explains National
Treatment.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#39.
Destination Europe II -
The second of our comprehensive guides to an
agreement with the European Union meant to replace aid with
trade, with
Junior Lodge,
who's coordinating negotiations on an Economic Partnership
Agreement (EPA) on behalf of Cariforum.
TradeSpeak
describes a
customs union.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#40.
Capital Ideas -
Trade negotiators
Ambassador Richard Bernal, Dr. Claudius Preville and Lincoln
Price reflect on one of Caribbean
integration's unfinished chapters - the free flow of
investment capital into Caricom and across its national
borders. They also share some ideas on how the region
intends to pursue investment opportunities within
multilateral and bilateral trade agreements and under
investment codes.
TradeSpeak explains
performance requirements
for investors.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#41. Message to the private sector.
The region's traders are urged to become informed and get
involved in global trade negotiations, for the benefit of
their businesses and Caribbean economies in an era of
globalisation. The message comes from
Sir Louis Straker,
the minister of foreign affairs, commerce and trade of St
Vincent and the Grenadines, as he opened a CRNM Trade Power
Dialogue in his country.
TradeSpeak
explains
globalisation.
Listen. [http://www.caribbeantradebeat.mypodcast.com]
#42. Ideas plus Innovation equals Trade Power.
Ideas from even the smallest nations can contribute to the
Caribbean's competitiveness in global trade, says
Dr. Claudius Preville,
the CRNM's St Lucia-based trade policy adviser and
representative to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean
States (OECS), as he shares his thoughts with the Vincentian
private sector in more highlights from a Trade Power
Dialogue.
Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) are
defined in TradeSpeak.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat42.wma]
#43. The bottom line of trade negotiations.
Lincoln Price,
the CRNM's Private Sector Liaison, gets down to brass tacks
with the Vincentian private sector on why trade negotiations
can have an impact on this tiny export nation's fortunes and
how the Vincentian private sector can help shape the kinds
of trade deals that reap big dividends; in more highlights
from a Trade Power Dialogue, held in conjunction with the
Private Sector Organisation of St Vincent and the
Grenadines. TradeSpeak
compares
comparative advantage and
absolute
advantage.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat43.wma]
#44.
The challenges of
developing an export business. We hear from
Dennis Noel,
a Grenadian entrepreneur who's developed a novel
pharmaceutical product, Nutmed, made from oil of nutmeg,
Grenada's world-famous indigenous spice. The inventor was
invited to share his experiences with the Grenadian private
sector on developing an export business at the CRNM's latest
Trade Power Dialogue.
TradeSpeak explains what is meant by a
safeguard measure.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat44.wma]
#45. Making the mandate.
The CRNM's director general,
Ambassador Richard Bernal,
previews a special session of Caricom's second-highest
decision-making body, the Council on Trade and Economic
Development (COTED), as trade ministers meet to map out
strategy for a resumption of trade negotiations in both the
multilateral and bilateral trade theatres. Also,
TradeSpeak
delves into the purpose of
COTED
under Caricom's Treaty of Chaguramas.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat45.wma]
#46. Agenda for trade -
CARICOM ministers responsible for trade and economic
development met in a special session of the Council for
Trade and Economic Development - Caricom's second highest
decision-making body.
Ambassador Richard Bernal,
the CRNM's director general, speaks on COTED's decisions to
guide the work of his team of trade negotiators over the
next year, and beyond...
TradeSpeak explains
government procurement.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat46.wma]
#47. Understanding Trade Issues -
In the Eastern Caribbean states, a new booklet written by an
old hand in international trade negotiations hits the
shelves in schools and libraries across the region.
"Understanding Trade Issues" explains, in simple,
easy-to-read language, the global trading system from an
Eastern Caribbean perspective. The OECS Director of Economic
Policy Randy Cato
leafs through the new publication.
Tradespeak
defines special
and differential treatment.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat47.wma]
#48. CRNM Stocktaking...
It's stocktaking time as Caribbean trade negotiators assess
their relationship with Caribbean business and plan a new
phase of face-to-face sessions. Hear
Lincoln Price
, the CRNM private sector liaison, on what's ahead for the
rest of this year as the region's trade negotiators continue
to reach out to the private sector.
TradeSpeak
explores the world of
arbitration.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat48.wma]
# 49.
More
'stocktaking' - Lincoln
Price, the CRNM's private sector liaison,
shares some of what his counterparts in business have been
telling trade negotiators about the way through -
and forward - in external trade, as the CRNM ends this
year's series of Trade Power Dialogues and prepares to
conduct Trade Seminars beginning in mid-November.
TradeSpeak
explains
restrictive business practices. Part 2 of 2.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat49.wma]
#50. Big in Japan...
Caribbean TradeBeat
celebrates its 50th edition in a reggae style and fashion -
exploring the phenomenal success of Jamaica's reggae music
in Japan! The island exports more than one million units of
vinyl discs loaded with the great and the good of Jamaican
music. Explore this remarkable niche for a world-renowned
Jamaican export with
Cleveland Browne,
the chairman of the Recording Industry Association of
Jamaica. And fittingly,
Tradespeak
gives 'nuff respect' to
Copyright...
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat50.wma]
#51.
Let's get creative! -
The creative industries are estimated to account for more
than seven per cent of GDP. What's the Caribbean's slice
of this global trade in publishing, cinema, music and the
like? And what are some of the issues facing Caribbean
producers that might find their way into the trade
negotiator's brief as policy recommendations? We hear from
CRNM services trade analyst
Natallie Rochester,
as experts meet to map out a trade and investment strategy
from promoting creative industries.
Tradespeak
explains patents.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat51.wma]
#52. The business of culture - part one -
A series of special reports on a CRNM conference of artists
and experts to plan how to promote the Creative Industries.
Their recommendations will help guide the Caribbean's trade
negotiations seeking to carve a slice out of the seven
percent of global economic output that's connected to the
arts, entertainment and culture.
Reverend Joseph Atherley,
Barbados's Minister of State in the Prime
Minister's Office addressed the gathering.
TradeSpeak
defines
expressions of folklore.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat52.wma]
#53. The business of culture - part two - Minshall's
musings... Trinidad
& Tobago's world-famous carnival designer and bandleader,
Peter Minshall,
suggests that the Caribbean moves from a narrow
self-interest in sponsoring cultural products to a long-term
strategy of investment in the arts, while examining how
creators should go about improving not only Caribbean
standards of living but the quality of life. He took part in
a CRNM seminar on promoting the Creative Industries.
Tradespeak asserts
economic rights....
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat53.wma]
#54. The business of culture - part three of three -
Festival sunrise.
As the Caribbean celebrates everything from soca to rum, the
burgeoning number of carnivals and festivals poses fresh
challenges - and tantalising opportunities - for developing
all the region's creative industries - from filmmaking to
mas' to music. Hear
Dr. Keith Nurse
reveal what he and fellow researchers found in a study of
the cultural industries for the CRNM.
TradeSpeak goes on
TRIPS.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat54.wma]
#55. News
from the front -
The Director-General of the CRNM,
Ambassador Richard
Bernal, updates Caribbean TradeBeat on
topical issues straight from the headlines - including the
European Union-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement
(EPA) and his thoughts on the impact of the recent
mid-term congressional elections in the United States on
the Caribbean's trade agenda.
TradeSpeak
revisits
special and differential treatment.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat55.wma]
#56.
Taking the pulse of business -
The CRNM meets the private sector on the results of a
year-long survey that sought to gauge the relationship
between the business community and the people who negotiate
trade deals on their behalf. Hear how the CRNM intends to
move forward now that it has such vital feedback from the
private sector from Director General
Ambassador Richard Bernal and Private Sector Liaison
Lincoln Price.
Tradespeak
explains
flexibility and
progressivity.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat56.wma]
#57. Boot
camp for Business...
After
involving the private sector in a series of trade briefs,
discussion sessions known as "trade power dialogues" and a
Caricom-wide survey, the CRNM heads to Dominica and Antigua
in the New Year to begin a fresh training initiative for
exporters -- "Trade Negotiations Boot Camp". As
Lincoln Price,
the CRNM's private sector liaison explains, it will be much
more user-friendly than it sounds....
TradeSpeak
identifies a
principal supplier.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat57.wma]
#58. T'is the season to reflect -
Caribbean TradeBeat
begins to look back on 2006 - the year in trade - with some
of our special guests who appeared on the show this year:
Caricom single market official
Ivor Carryl, industrialists
Rollins Bertrand, Yesu Persaud and Ronnie
Bulkan and artists
Ronald "Boo" Hinkson
and Peter Minshall.
Listen. [http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat58.wma]
#59. 2006 - The Year in Trade. CSME,
FTAA, EPA, WTO. Explaining what those initials meant for the
region's trade negotiators in 2006 is the focus of the final
edition for the year - Caribbean TradeBeat's annual recap of
key developments on Caricom's trade negotiations fronts -
with CRNM Director General
Ambassador
Richard Bernal.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat59.wma]
#60.
he Year Ahead
in Trade.
Caribbean TradeBeat
returns to the air after the holiday break to focus on the
CRNM's own resolution: get the region's private sector to
become better informed and more involved in trade and
trade issues.
Ambassador Richard Bernal, the CRNM's
director general previews a year of challenge and
opportunity.
TradeSpeak is back with
specific limitations on
trade.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat60.wma]
#61. Reaching out in 2007 --
This year will see the introduction of a new outreach
activity, the trade negotiations boot camp -- a two-day
workshop aimed at equipping business people with the
knowledge to produce to-the-point briefs that could inform
trade negotiating positions for the region;
Lincoln Price,
the CRNM's private sector liaison, explains.
TradeSpeak
defines another
specific limitation on trade -
exchange controls.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat61.wma]
#62.
OECS - One region trading with the world. Nine
nations - one roadmap for trade. The Organisation of Eastern
Caribbean States is coming up with its own common trade
policy as it moves towards economic union. Dr. Claudius
Preville, the CRNM'S trade advisor to the OECS, explains
the policy and gives an overview of the key developments in
trade facing the sub-region. TradeSpeak explains
another specific limitation on
trade - export quotas.
Listen. [
http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat62.wma]
#63.
Free trade, free flow in OECS -
Whether
it's a guitar for a leading regional jazz musician or a food
dye for a drinks factory, trade facilitation is about easing
the procedures involved in importing inputs and exporting
finished products. The CRNM trade advisor to the
Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Claudius
Preville, discusses how customs officers in the
nine-member grouping are take steps to move from mere
revenue protection and law enforcement to trade facilitation
in order to boost exports - through technology, training and
new attitudes. TradeSpeak explains yet another
specific limitation on trade - licensing.
Listen.
[http://mycricketplus.com/~tradebeat/TradeBeat63.wma]
#64.
Aid for trade (part one) -
An old
hand at trade negotiations for the Eastern Caribbean States,
Ambassador Edwin Laurent has been working on
advancing thought and work on the concept of "aid for
trade". What's in it for developing countries like those in
the Caribbean and is aid for trade a hand up to the region
to be internationally competitive or merely a handout?
Part one of two. TradeSpeak goes to
arbitration....
Listen.
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