Current full members of CARICOM and partial participant of the CSME : Haiti ’s Parliament ratified the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas in October 2007 and Haitian Foreign Minister Jean Renald Clerisme presented the published Notice of Ratification to the Chairman of the Caribbean Community Council of Ministers , on 7 February clearing the way for the country ’s full participation in the CSME on 8 February 2008 . Haiti has not completed its implementation of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas and is therefore not a full participant in the Single Market and Economy . In keeping with the thrust to rebuild the country following the 2010 earthquake and earlier 2004 political crisis , work has also continued on preparing Haiti to participate effectively in the CSME . It is being assisted in its preparations by the Secretariat , led by the CARICOM Representation Office in Haiti ( CROH ) which was re-opened in 2007 with funding from the Canadian International Development Agency ( CIDA ) . The CROH , in 2007 started the Haiti CSME Project , the objective of which was to assist the Government of Haiti in accelerating its participation in the CSME as a means of enabling Haiti to fully re-engage in the process of regional integration in the Caribbean Community . As a first step towards the CSME , Haiti was due to enter the trade in goods regime of the Single Market in January 2010 ( earlier targets had been for some time in 2009 ) but could not do so because of the earthquake . Up until that point much work had been done by CROH and its Haitian government counterpart , the Bureau de Coordination et de Suivi or BCS ( Office of Coordination and Monitoring ) , on the technical work necessary to bring the Haitian national tariff in line with the Caricom Common External Tariff ( CET ) . The next step that had to be taken for Haiti to commence full free trade in goods within the CSME was therefore for the Haitian Parliament to pass legislation adopting the Caricom External tariff as Haiti ’s national tariff . In mid 2009 , the Government of Haiti announced that it would be ready to participate fully in free trade in goods within the CSME by 1 January 2010 ; and in fact through a revised Custom Act adopted by the Haitian Parliament in late 2009 , 20-30 % of the Caricom CET was incorporated into the Haitian national tariff . However soon after Haiti 's progress towards full adoption of the CET began to stall with the dismissal of the Government of Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis in November 2009 and was then put on hold as a result of the January 2010 earthquake . To assist in stimulating economic activity , the Council for Trade and Economic Development ( COTED ) in December , approved a request for some Haitian products to be exported within the Single Market on a non-reciprocal preferential basis for three years . Consultations are on-going towards approval of additional items from an original list which Haiti submitted . The concession became effective from 1 January 2011 . CARICOM Secretariat officials are continuing their training exercises with Haitian customs officials to facilitate their understanding of the CSME ’s trading regime
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