r/Jamaica • u/Sensitive-Pie-6595 • 1d ago

Business and Finance How We Will Face the Tariffs

https://radiojamaicanewsonline.com/local/pm-urges-jamaican-businesses-to-seek-markets-in-the-wake-of-trump-tariff-imposition

this is what the Prime Minister said, encouraging us to find new markets. He has turned what looked a disaster into an opportunity.

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u/kymani_winxandsponge 1d ago

Well no duh.

Lets see how this goes. We gotta tap in.

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u/Sensitive-Pie-6595 23h ago

definately....

when there was no panic here... stock market moving easy, no worries... I felt that Holness knew something or had some plan... I think this is the first taste and wouldn't be surprised to see stuff from other countries coming here while we start shipping to places we never thought of.

Wait until they taste our coffee and chocolate... we will run out in an eye blink

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u/AndreTimoll 23h ago

That's always the way to look at things no matter how bad a situation is ,there is always oppurinties.

Now is the time for local producers to have JMEA, JAMPRO,SRC,BSJ,JIPO, AgroInvest,DBJ and Exim Bank on speed dail.

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u/Sensitive-Pie-6595 17h ago

I think we are going to come out of this with new trading partners

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u/Freethinker3o5 16h ago

Everybody’s trading partners will expand..even the US’s…