Cuba and Panama established a Partial Scope Agreement to enhance trade relations by addressing technical barriers and ensuring legal metrology aligns with international standards. The agreement, effective from August 20th, 2009, aims to streamline commerce and foster economic cooperation.
The possible disputes will be under the regime of dispute resolution.
With this agreement they look to ease the commerce and both countries commit to work together, taking into account any proposal oriented to a specific sector.
Agreed
Programmatic commitment in investment and trade in services
Commerce cooperation and dispute resolution
Sanitary and phytosanotary regulations
Tariff preferences
Trade defense
Rules of origin
Safeguards
This agreement help both countries to participate more in the global economy.
The objetives
Estimulate the integration promoting the supplementary complementation between countries
Facilitate, expand, diversify and promote the commercial exchange
Seek for the bilateral trade to be foreseeable transparent, equilibrated and fair
Reinforce the economic and commercial development
The techinal barriers to the trade is created and have representatives from each country
Investigate and propose solutions to the technical regulations that obstaculice the commerce
Verify that the legal metrology are in accordance to the IOLG
Identify and eliminate any regulation that might obstaculice the commerce
Contribute to access effectively to the market
Bith countries are part of the Association of Caribean States and WTO