While recent technological advances have allowed an increase in digital trade, this growth has occurred with a lack of clear and defined rules. This deficiency has become an issue for Latin American countries. With the multilateral trade regime impasse, more complex regional and bilateral agreements have emerged. The formulation of digital trade regulation raises many questions. In this article we deal with the new rules on digital trade in regional trade agreements recently negotiated by Latin American economies.

Panel presenter and moderator, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. The workshop served as a platform to begin much needed discussions on harmonizing activities in the regional cultural sector. In this regard, the initiatives by the key players in the sector such as CARICOM, the Caribbean Development Bank, the British Council, the European Union and national governments where mapped and examined with the view to identifying overlaps and gaps in their activities.

The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, combining both tangible and intangible cultural elements, is an active expression of cultural vibrancy and vehicle of cultural sustainability within the country, the region, and in the Caribbean diaspora internationally and an international tourism attraction. This chapter explores the way it has developed and spread and identifies the ways in which the synergies between the creative and tourism sectors are being exploited, critical success factors, best practices, and pitfalls.

This study explores the impact of the EU-CARIFORUM free trade agreement in the field of culture and creative activities. The study tries to identify the success stories, as well as the obstacles that may have prevented the full beneficial effect of the agreement. Our key messages are that despite the far-reaching commitments undertaken by the EU in granting preferential conditions to Caribbean cultural practitioners and the facilitated market access for media co-productions and the overall enhanced possibilities for cultural cooperation, there is more that needs to be done.