CARICOM chair presses Trump for exemption from port fees

The chair of the Caribbean Community, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, has appealed to President Trump to protect the region from the potential impacts of proposed fees on Chinese-built ships that dock at U.S. ports. Mottley expressed her concern about the fees, proposed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as part of a Section 301 investigation into Chinese practices in the shipbuilding sector, in a letter to Trump sent on behalf of CARICOM, according to a March...