X Trade Promotion Organisations Forum (TPO)
Agenda
Friday 23 October 2009
8:30 – 9:15 : Opening ceremony
- Address from the President of the ACS Special Committee for Trade Development and External Economic Relations
- Address from the Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency
- Address from the ACS Director for Trade Development and External Economic Relations
- Address from the General Director of the Centre for Facilitation of Investments of Haiti
9:15 – 10:45 :Theme 1 : The evaluation of mechanisms and instruments for the promotion and facilitation of investments in the Greater Caribbean
- Topics and panellists :
- The Colombian model (panellist to be identified)
- The Jamaican model, representative of JAMPRO
- The results of the CNUCED 2009 Dominican Republic Investment Policy Review
- Presentation by CNUCED (to be confirmed with the CNUCED in Geneva)
- Reactions from the Dominican representative, Eddy Martinez from CEI-RD
- Debates and closing by the moderator
10:45 – 11:00 : Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 :Theme 2: The Caribbean Synergy for the promotion of promising sectors
- Topics and panellists:
- The Caribbean Sea Cotton, an agro-industrial alternative for the region
- The Cuban experience with the natural fibres as raw material, by a representative of the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba
- Multi-destination Tourism, an opportunity to be seized, by the President of the Haiti-Dominican Republic Chamber of Commerce, hotelier sector in the Dominican Republic
- Debates and closing by the moderator
12:30 – 14:00 :Lunch with a presentation on Competitiveness and Co-operation in the Caribbean in a time of crisis and recession
14:00 – 15:30 : Theme 3: Common strategies for trade promotion and investments
- Topics and panellists:
- Presentation by the WAIPA on the possible strategies
- Presentation by the CAIPA and the implications for the TPOs
- Debates and closing by the moderator
15:30 – 16:00 : Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30 : Signatures Ceremony
- TPO Resolution
- Specific agreements.
