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Caribbean Export and EPA Implementation in the Caribbean Services Sector EXPORT DEVELOPMENT & PROMOTION

MANAGEMENT CONSULTING BUSINESS SYMPOSIUM

Caribbean Export provides support to the management consulting industry in the form of an annual Business Symposium. A significant feature of this initiative has been the B2B meetings between CARIFORUM, European management consulting practitioners and firms. This staging is indicative of a focus on increasing the trade in services as anticipated under the CARIFORUM-EU EPA. The European country spread of European firms participating in these Business Symposia includes Spain, France, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. This platform has led to CARIFORUM firms engaging in strategic business partnerships with regional as well as

European counterparts with positive implications for the generation of business opportunities. To date, 138 regional management consultants have participated in the annual Business Symposium (Figure 11) .