CARICOM-Africa Trade
AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) 2023
From October 30th-31st, Afreximbank held the second annual AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) in Georgetown, Guyana under the theme “Creating a Shared Prosperous Future.”
Key focus areas for ACTIF23 included accelerating private sector investment, improving infrastructure, financing, and trade logistics, and promoting trade, tourism, and regional integration.
Additionally, the forum served to highlight the significant progress made by the Afreximbank-CARICOM Partnership namely, the Afreximbank Board of Directors’ approval of US $1.5 billion in funding for CARICOM member states that have ratified the Partnership Agreement to access the Bank’s financial instruments, and the CARICOM Development Fund becoming Bank’s first CARICOM shareholder.
AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) 2022
As we welcome the convening of the Africa-Trade and Investment Forum, 2022 to Barbados, the SRC supports the efforts to establish deeper trade relations between CARICOM and Africa. Check out what we have done so far.
The SRC is pleased to share the work of the P.J. Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies, which aims to centralize and coordinate its relations with African peoples, governments, universities, and institutions through a specialized institutional agreement. See here for more information.
Read the publication from the International Trade Centre (ITC) on Expanding African-Caribbean Trade.
JOINT COMMUNIQUE/DECLARATION OF THE INAUGURAL AFRICARIBBEAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT FORUM – September 2, 2022, Click here to read more.
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Caribbean-Africa Webinar Series Rapporteur’s Note
The SRC is pleased to share our Caribbean-Africa Webinar Series Rapporteur’s Note. It is the first output from the informative series we cohosted with Tralac, Trapca and AfronomicsLaw over a period of five weeks in June and July 2021. The rapporteur’s note, which was authored by the series’ moderators Ms. Kholofelo Kugler (Co-Founder, Trade Policy Exchange) and our own SRC Director Dr. Jan Yves Remy, provides a background to the series and the major conclusions from each of the webinars. The series was formally opened with a Keynote address by H.E. Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
We are particularly happy to release this Rapporteur’s Note to coincide with the hosting of the Africa-CARICOM Summit on September 7, 2021 and as our contribution to the wider discourse on deepening Africa-Caribbean relations.
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