CARICOM Foreign Ministers have denounced in strong terms the negative impact that the UK’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) tax continues to have on the region’s revenue sources.
According to a communiqué issued at the end of the conclusion of the Fifteenth Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) held from May 3-4 in Paramaribo, Suriname, the foreign ministers observed that the tax was distorting trade and compromising the region’s efforts towards sustainable development,