Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, Paula Gopee-Scoon will lead a del­e­ga­tion of 10 pri­vate sec­tor com­pa­nies along with se­nior ex­ec­u­tives of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) and state en­ter­prise ex­porTT Lim­it­ed on a Trade Mis­sion to Colom­bia from Sep­tem­ber 2-6, 2018.

The min­istry says the thrust of the mis­sion is in align­ment with spe­cif­ic ini­tia­tives out­lined in the Gov­ern­ment Pol­i­cy Frame­work to re­build growth and sus­tain the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor.

The mis­sion is to as­sist with fur­ther pen­e­tra­tion of the Latin Amer­i­can mar­ket by pro­vid­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for lo­cal ex­porters to gain first-hand knowl­edge of the mar­ket op­por­tu­ni­ties, ex­plore new com­mer­cial prospects through or­gan­ised busi­ness to busi­ness meet­ings and build net­works which will fa­cil­i­tate in­creased ex­ports to Colom­bia.

The Trade and In­dus­try Min­is­ter will en­gage in a se­ries of bi­lat­er­al dis­cus­sions with Min­is­te­r­i­al coun­ter­parts, Busi­ness Cham­bers, Ex­port Agen­cies and Man­u­fac­tur­ing As­so­ci­a­tions with the aim of strength­en­ing the trade and in­vest­ment re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Colom­bia.

Tar­get­ed sec­tors, based on leads gen­er­at­ed from ex­porTT’s Mar­ket Sur­vey Mis­sion in May 2018, in­clude Food and Bev­er­age; Chem­i­cals and Non-metal­lic Min­er­als; Plas­tics; and Wood and Wood Re­lat­ed Prod­ucts.

The par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pa­nies in­clude Ansa Coat­ings, Bry­den Pl Lim­it­ed, Carib Brew­ery, Glob­al Mar­ket­ing Lim­it­ed, Na­tion­al Flour Mills Lim­it­ed, RHS Mar­ket­ing Lim­it­ed, Car­go Con­sol­ida­tor Agency, Arthur Lok Jack Glob­al School of Busi­ness, Langston Roach In­dus­tries Lim­it­ed and Vem­co.