In a move to deep­en com­mer­cial ties and un­lock new ex­port op­por­tu­ni­ties, the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has launched a trade mis­sion to Chile from No­vem­ber 10 to 14.

The ini­tia­tive is led by TTMA CEO Dr Ramesh Ramdeen and in­cludes a del­e­ga­tion of over 20 rep­re­sen­ta­tives from 12 lead­ing com­pa­nies in the man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor.

A re­lease from the TTMA said the mis­sion is de­signed to cap­i­talise on the Par­tial Scope Agree­ment be­tween T&T and Chile, which pro­vides pref­er­en­tial mar­ket ac­cess for goods and lays the ground­work for in­creased trade and in­vest­ment.

TTMA aims to lever­age this frame­work to ex­pand the reach of lo­cal man­u­fac­tur­ers in­to Latin Amer­i­ca’s dy­nam­ic mar­kets.

Par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pa­nies span key in­dus­tries such as print­ing and pack­ag­ing, food and bev­er­age and chem­i­cals and in­clude HAD­CO, DSB Mar­ket­ing, RHS Mar­ket­ing, Langston Roach In­dus­tries, David’s Plumb­ing, Pepe’s Mar­ket­ing and Is­rat­e­ch.

Over the five-day vis­it, the del­e­ga­tion is ex­pect­ed to en­gage in a ro­bust agen­da fea­tur­ing busi­ness-to-busi­ness (B2B) meet­ings, sem­i­nars on do­ing busi­ness in Chile, net­work­ing events, mar­ket vis­its and guid­ed tours.

These ac­tiv­i­ties are aimed at fos­ter­ing com­mer­cial part­ner­ships, gain­ing mar­ket in­tel­li­gence and pro­mot­ing T&T’s prod­ucts and ca­pa­bil­i­ties.

TTMA said it views this mis­sion as a crit­i­cal step in strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions and po­si­tion­ing its mem­bers for long-term suc­cess in Latin Amer­i­ca.

The as­so­ci­a­tion re­mains com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing its mem­bers in nav­i­gat­ing new mar­kets and dri­ving sus­tain­able growth through in­ter­na­tion­al trade.