Venezuelan ambassador: Non-tariff barriers between T&T, Venezuela will fall in 2016*

BY 2016, a number of non-tariff barriers that, for decades, prevented Venezuelan products from entering Trinidad and Tobago will be removed, as Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and T&T Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley grease the wheels of bilateral trade at an upcoming Caracas summit.  The prediction was made by Venezuelan Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Coromoto Godoy Calderon during an interview at her embassy office in Port of Spain on November 4. “I am sure 2016 is the year,” she said. “Venezuelan flowers, marble, cheese, Trinidadian shampoo and many other products,” will flow freely across the borders, she forecast. More…