CARIFORUM and UK EPA Study

• Agricultural Technology (AgriTech) • Business Process Outsourcing • Hotel and Resort Development

The study, however, finds that greater emphasis needs to be placed on the role of services in the tangible goods producing sectors, and most notably in relation to Agro-food exports and manufacturing. Which are among the top products demanded by the UK from CF. Given what this study has argued in terms of the environment and standards, then it is also critical to emphasise green activities, as well as further harnessing the region’s natural advantages. In particular, the study has found that the greatest value can come from the non-tourism linked services highlighted in this study, such as transport, trade (retail), financial services and business services to complement Agro-Food production. . Incorporating services will add further value to the region’s productive output, but at the same time it should be recognised that while a smaller share of the export dollar will go to producers, the overall gains would increase and be distributed throughout the regional value chain.. This “de-commodification” or “servicification” of output, therefore, should be an explicit strategy in boosting the regions exports.

Investment challenges and opportunities between the UK and CARIFORUM

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Challenges

Though the CF-UK EPA in effect carries forward or continues the UK’s commitments into a new agreement, there are certain intangible elements, which CARIFORUM States would have come to rely on as part of the mechanism for the trade in services and investment that will no longer be available to CARIFORUM States, at least not in the previous form. These are:

1. Issues related to the free circulation of the tools of trade for CARIFORUM’s Mode 4 services providers moving back and forth between commercially established CF firms in

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