Caribbean Export OUTLOOK 3rd Edition

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Exporter s ' Toolbox

market research, and learn the best practices from some of the most productive businesses and organizations in the world. • Benchmarking Assessment Benchmarking provides Trade Promotion Organisations (TPOs) with a reliable and objective assessment of their institution, its efficiency, and its performance in relation to best business practices of TPOs across the world. The assessment identifies areas for improvement through the use of a full complement of benchmark measures developed specifically for TPOs. • Brand Development and Packaging Workshops The Brand Development and Packaging Workshop was developed to address some of the weaknesses in regional product branding/packaging and overall product presentation for the export market. • Market Intelligence Training Workshops Market Intelligence Training Workshops for private sector firms and BSOs are designed to assist in the capacity building of the regional private sector to procure high quality market intelligence information through the identification and use of various trade information data sources and platforms. • Regional Trade Information Training Programme The Regional Trade Information Training Programme builds the capacity of regional experts from various BSOs and Trade Promotion Organizations (TPOs) in trade information management. • Women Empowered through Export (WE-Xport) WE-Xport is designed to support Caribbean women

in business to start exporting or increase the exports of their products and services contributing towards their economic empowerment. EXPORTERS’ TOOLKIT The Exporters’ Toolkit provides a step by step guide on how to export goods and services successfully. It provides templates and resources that can help any business to export regionally or internationally. Trade and Business Intelligence Systems (tbis) Caribbean Export provides a range of services in the area of market intelligence to equipfirmswith the tools required for effective market research, and provides critical information used to inform the businesses decisions necessary when embarking on exporting goods and services to newmarkets. • Market Intelligence Portal (CE-INTELLIGENCE) The CE-INTELLIGENCE Portal is designed to be an online platform, which gives the user the ability to obtain market reports on products, sectors and countries of interest. Key data the portal will report on will be Trade/Economic data, Market/Sector Profiles and reports, Tariff and Non-Tariff data, a business register/database of regional companies, trade agreements analysis, directory of Business Support Organisations, Trade regulation and related documentation, and links to important data sources. Visit www.ceintelligence.com