The Minister for Trade Negotiations, Honourable Lautafi Fio Selafi Joseph Purcell, chaired the 21^st Meeting of the ACP Ministerial Trade Committee Meeting held on 24^th October 2018 at the ACP House in Brussels, Belgium.  The ACP Ministers and representatives discussed the post-Cotonou negotiations in relation to trade cooperation; the state of play of the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreement; ACP-EU Trade regime issues; the WTO issues; Trade-related capacity building programmes; the EU list of the third party non-cooperative tax jurisdictions; and ways to strengthen intra-ACP trade relations.

Members of Samoa’s delegation include Ms Peseta Noumea Simi, CEO of MFAT, H.E. Fatumanava Dr Paolelei Luteru, Ambassador of Samoa, Ms Nella Tavita-Levy, ACEO-Trade of MFAT, and Ms Fiona Lene-Samoa, Principal Officer-Trade of MFAT.