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ST. JOHNS, Antigua: Two U.S. Ambassadors say they understand the issues of "high fiscal revenue dependency on international trade taxes" and agree that there should be an exemption to tariff elimination for smaller economies with such characteristics in the Free Trade Area of the Americas plan.
United States Ambassador to Jamaica Mrs. Sue Cobb and her husband Mr. Charles Cobb, former United States Ambassador to Iceland, met with Antigua's Prime Minister, Mr. Lester Bird yesterday, to mainly discuss issues relating to the FTAA.
The 'courtesy call' comes on the heels of the FTAA Technical Negotiating Committee meeting scheduled for Trinidad later in October, and the FTAA Ministerial Conference scheduled for Miami in late November of this year.
Prime Minister Bird took the opportunity to reiterate Antigua and Barbuda's support for further work in the Consultative Group on Smaller Economies with a view to finding a definition for "smaller economies" in a timely manner and certainly before the end of the negotiations in 2005.
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