Press Release: Strengthening Caribbean-EU trade and development: Haiti signs the CARIFORUM–EU Economic Partnership Agreement

Haiti signed on 11 December 2009 the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and joins the fourteen Caribbean States that signed the EPA in October 2008. This will strengthen Haiti's ties both with the EU, and with other Caribbean countries. The Cariforum-EU EPA is North-South trade and development agreement of new generation. It aims to promote sustainable development, boost trade, investment and innovation, help build a regional market among Caribbean countries, and tackle poverty in the region.