JAMAICAN EXPORTERS have failed to take full advantage of the country’s trading relationship with Costa Rica.
“We have the opportunity to sell more goods to Costa Rica under our free trade agreement and it is a market that we need to look more closely at in terms of how we can expand,” said Executive Director of the JMEA, Imega Breese-McNab.
This disclosure came during a tour of the Spur Tree Spices facilities at the Garmex Freezone, 76 Marcus Garvey Drive, to witness the company’s first shipment to Costa Rica, valued at US$30,000.
The export opportunity arose out of an email Director of Spur Tree Spices, Mohan Jagnarine, received more than a year ago, saying that the boss of a store, Telemundo, had come to Jamaica and bought some of its products and was desirous of sourcing additional goods.
Meanwhile, Chargé d’Affaires of the Embassy of Costa Rica, Gina Guillen Grillo, disclosed that with an estimated 65,000 Jamaicans living in her country, the Spur Tree products have a very good target audience.
