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The London-based real estate advisor, Savills,[1] has tallied up the value of all global property, which includes commercial and residential property as well as forestry and agricultural land. The total value was estimated at US$217 trillion, with re...

The Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Patrick Faber, made an official visit to the Republic of Cuba from 22nd to 26th of May 2017. The objective of this State visit was to strengthen bi-lateral relationship with Cuba. He was accompanied by a delegation of ...

The Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, which came into effect on 1 January 1995, is to date the most comprehensive World Trade Organization multilateral agreement on intellectual property. Intellectual property c...

The Directorate General for Foreign Trade launched Belize’s Trade Policy Framework in July 2016. The Cabinet approved framework provides government’s commitment and policy guidance for formulating Belize’s first comprehensive National Trade Policy ai...

The Directorate General for Foreign Trade (DGFT) extends special thanks to all stakeholders that contributed to making CARICOM Week a great success. CARICOM Week, celebrated under the theme “What CARICOM Means to Me”, highlighted the opportunities ac...

Belize Trade Policy Framework and Environment Despite its active participation in the regional and multilateral trading regime, Belize does not have a National Trade Policy. Following the development and launch of Belize’s Trade Policy Framework i...

Belize’s contribution to world trade is less than 0.01%, an insignificant value in the pool of goods and services traded globally. While Belize may be faced with this reality there are opportunities to stimulate trade growth through having fair, pred...

Belize has successfully completed its third Trade Policy Review (TPR), at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, from the 24th - 26th April 2017.  The Belize delegation was led by H.E Ambassador Dylan Vernon, Embassy o...

Several disruptive factors including a hurricane and diseases, caused a slump in the production and exports of Primary products such as Citrus, Bananas and Shrimps in 2016. These factors allowed for a drop of about 25% in export revenues figures from...