Senator Ron Wyden wrote to US Customs and Border Protection on 20 August 2026 asking why it let a Dominican sugar producer resume imports after a forced-labour ban. The passage his committee published sets that against the Section 301 tariffs. Guyana pays those at the higher band.
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The US allocated 1,117,195 tonnes of raw cane sugar quota for the fiscal year just ended. The Dominican Republic received almost three times what the seven CARICOM members with allocations received between them. Its largest producer's forced-labour import ban was lifted in March 2025.
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Michael Munroe, Director of Guyana's Local Content Secretariat, told the Guyana Supplier Forum on 4 November 2026 that writing an unbundling requirement into the Local Content Act is an active consideration. Oil companies bundle services such as pest control, sanitation and security into one tender.
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Revenue from petroleum products fell 72.7 per cent over the year to October 2026, in a month Haiti's customs administration calls its highest October on record at 11.5 billion gourdes. The adopted 2026-2027 budget targets 129 billion gourdes from non-oil customs, against 115.6 billion.
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A Banque de la Republique d'Haiti working paper of 30 March 2026 finds the exchange rate is the dominant channel through which an oil shock reaches Haiti's economy, depreciating the gourde persistently and eroding reserves. Haiti has no production capacity and no domestic refining.
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Belize's domestic exports rose 31.7 per cent in September 2026 and imports fell 3.8 per cent, narrowing the monthly merchandise gap by $21.1 million. In the same month the Consumer Confidence Index fell to 38.4, its lowest since April 2024, with durable goods sentiment down 26.5 per cent.
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Royal Caribbean published a summer 2028 Caribbean deployment of eleven ships, four of them Icon-class, sailing April to October 2028. The named calls include Perfect Day CocoCay and Royal Beach Club Paradise Island, both of which the line owns. Labadee, suspended through April 2028, does not appear.
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Santiago Peña promulgated Ley 7745 on 4 November 2026, letting the Fondo de Garantía de Depósitos advance up to 40 minimum wages to ueno bank's depositors. The Cámara de Diputados impeached him 78-0 the next day. The full guarantee of 75 minimum wages still runs to its 17 November deadline.
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The Guyana Tourism Authority reported 47,726 visitor arrivals in October 2026, a record for the month and 12.8 per cent up on October 2025. The same month a year earlier grew 28.9 per cent. Ten months have run at 9.9 per cent, and reaching 500,000 asks November and December for 11.7.
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JetBlue raised checked bag fees for bookings made from 3 November 2026, its second increase this year. Guyana sits in the band covering the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, where the first bag is now US$50 off-peak and the second US$70.
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Michael Munroe, Director of Guyana's Local Content Secretariat, told a suppliers' forum in Georgetown on 4 November that the Secretariat intends to ask the oil companies what work might be set aside for small and women-owned businesses. The Act reserves 40 services and names neither.
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The International Trade Centre and Afreximbank launched a report in Antigua on 3 November 2026 cutting their projection for Africa-Caribbean trade by a fifth against the figure their own heads published sixteen months earlier. Interregional trade stands at US$729 million.
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