CARICOM - Dominican Republic Trade Agreement -

Name	CARICOM – Dominican Republic
Members	Antigua and Barbuda – Bahamas – Barbados – Belize –Dominica – Grenada – Guyana – Haiti – Jamaica – Montserrat – Saint Kitts and Nevis – Saint Lucia – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Suriname – Trinidad and Tobago – Dominican Republic
Type of agreement	Multilateral Free Trade Agreement
Date of signature	August 22, 1998
Current Status	On-going
Key points	1. The Agreement provides for the immediate elimination of duties or the phasing out of duties on all goods except for products which might be identified as sensitive. 2. For those products not eligible for duty free treatment, the agreement provides for a phased reduction of duty for some by 2004 and the most favoured nation treatment for the remainder. It also covers services, investment and government procurement. 3. All goods can be imported into the DR duty free or benefit from the phased reduction of tariffs to zero, with the exception of certain goods for which MFN duties will apply. For more details, kindly check the link in references.
Annexe	https://wits.worldbank.org/GPTAD/PDF/archive/CARICOM-DR.pdf

References

1. CARICOM – Dominican Republic Trade Agreement, , accessed December 2020, https://bit.ly/3mZZPnN

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