Guyana, Suriname eye higher exports to Brazil by World Cup, Olympics

The strategic window for enhanced Guyana and Suriname exports to Brazil is the market entry period leading up to the Olympic Games and the World Cup in 2014 and 2016.

That is one of the opportunities identified in a report commissioned by Caribbean Export, the region’s export development agency, to assess the potential opportunities that the Guyana/Suriname-Brazil nexus can play in increasing the volume of trade among the troika and by extension expanding export trade diversification of export markets.

A meeting of officials from Guyana, Suriname and Caribbean Export is currently underway in Suriname with officials discussing the report on enhancing exports and a Troika Trade Assessment Plan that has been detailed in that report, a statement from the