The T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) will be host­ing a trade mis­sion to Guyana dur­ing the pe­ri­od Oc­to­ber 3 to 7, 2023.

The del­e­ga­tion will be led by the TTMA’s pres­i­dent, Roger Roach.

In a state­ment, the TTMA said this year, the del­e­ga­tion will con­sist of 31 com­pa­nies and 45 par­tic­i­pants, in­clud­ing Ex­im­bank and ex­porTT.

The sec­tors par­tic­i­pat­ing con­sist of food and bev­er­age, chem­i­cal, con­struc­tion, house­hold prod­ucts, agro-pro­cess­ing, car­go and ser­vices.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTMA, “This mis­sion aims to strength­en ties with our Cari­com neigh­bour and fos­ter new re­la­tion­ships be­tween T&T and Guyanese com­pa­nies.

“Guyana re­mains a sig­nif­i­cant trad­ing part­ner for T&T, rank­ing in the top five ex­port des­ti­na­tions in the Caribbean. Main ex­ports con­sist of min­er­al fu­els, bev­er­ages, food and bev­er­age items, chem­i­cal prod­ucts and pa­per-re­lat­ed com­modi­ties just to name a few.”

The TTMA added that the trade mis­sion is the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive phys­i­cal trade mis­sion to Guyana for the or­gan­i­sa­tion since COVID-19, with a vir­tu­al trade mis­sion be­ing held in 2021.

It added that Guyana will con­tin­ue to be on the trade mis­sion sched­ule for the TTMA, due to the op­por­tu­ni­ties pre­sent­ed for mu­tu­al trade.

TTMA added that it looks for­ward to a suc­cess­ful event as it con­tin­ues to strength­en ties be­tween the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ties of both coun­tries.