Trade Agreements
Antigua and Barbuda have ratified/signed on to a number of regional and international agreements to the multilateral trading environment. There are
provisions in these agreements that require the development, amendments and implementation of national laws to comply with obligations/commitments
under the agreements.
The following are Regional and International Trade Agreements governing Antigua and Barbuda trading environment:
REGIONAL (CARICOM & OECS) / INTERNATIONAL
- The Revised Treaty of Basseterre Establishing the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Economic Union
- The Caribbean Community Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas
- Caribbean- Canada Free Trade Agreement (CARIBCAN)
- Trade Cooperation Agreement between CARICOM and CUBA
- CARICOM- Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement
- Preferential Trade Agreement on Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation between CARICOM and Colombia
- Preferential Trade Agreement on Trade, Economic and Technical Cooperation between CARICOM and Venezuela
- Preferential Trade Agreement between CARICOM and Costa Rica
- Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization
- Multilateral Agreement on Trade in Goods
- General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT 1947)
- General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)
- Agreement on Agriculture
- Agreement on Rules of Origin
- Agreement on Technical Barrier to Trade
- Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
- Agreement on Textiles and Clothing
- Agreement on Trade-Related Investments Measures (TRIMS)
- Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures
- Agreement on Subsides and Countervailing Measures
- Agreement on Safeguards
- Agreement on Pre-Shipment Inspection
- Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of GATT
- Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the GATT
- Trade Facilitation Agreement
- Cotonou Agreement
- Lome Convention
- The Georgetown Agreement
- CARIFORUM-European Union Economic Partnership Agreement
- CARIFORUM-United Kingdom Economic Partnership Agreement
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer
The legislative/regulatory framework set the parameters for Antigua and Barbuda’s trading environment and addresses the legal issues relating to national and cross-border.