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Minister of Industry, Investment & Commerce Aubyn Hill says the Government will be moving to have more serious discussions with countries outside of the United States for the export of Jamaican goods, a process that started more than a year ago, according to him.
His comment comes on the heels of the Uniteed States announcing the imposition of a 10 per cent tariff on goods it imports from Jamaica as well as the concerns about the impact on the country's trade deficit.
Last year, Senator Hill led a delegation of public-private sector representatives on a business mission to Guyana and Suriname to expose them to exporting opportunities for Jamaican goods and services, and to facilitate linkages.
Both Guyana and Suriname are already members of the regional trading bloc, alongside Jamaica.
Senator Hill, speaking Friday morning on The Morning Agenda, on Power 106, said the Government has also set its sights on selling Jamaican products to other countries in South America, North America, and Europe.
Clarification
The Minister also disclosed that the government is seeking clarification from the Trump administration on the tariffs.
"We have yet to get the specifics," he said, explaining that the customs manuals contain "thousands and thousands of goods," but, critically, he added, it was important to learn whether longstanding trade preferences given to CARICOM states under the decaes-old Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) have been disturbed by this unilitaral tariff imposition by the Trump administration.
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