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Jamaican soap manufacturers have lost a year-long battle for continued duty-free exports to the Caricom market of 18 million people.
The loss comes after a successful challenge in late November at Caricom’s Council for Trade and Economic Development, COTED, by the government of Dominica on behalf of a soap and soap input producers in the tiny Caribbean nation of 72,000 people.
Dominica Coconut Products Successors Limited, DCPS, had long held that the Jamaican firms were breaching the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, the agreement that governs trade and functional cooperation arrangements among the 15 member countries of Caricom.
DCPS, the sole Caricom producer of animal fat and palm oil-based noodles that are the core ingredient for the production of soap bars, wants to lock Jamaican companies into buying its raw material over their current suppliers in Indonesia, in order for the local firms to continue qualifying for “community origin status” and the waiver of t ....

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