International Trade Policy

Overview

The International Trade Policy program offered by The University of the West Indies is designed to accommodate the increasing interdisciplinary requirements of practitioners who represent business or governmental interests in the negotiation of legislative policy and evolving international trade policies. 

Graduates with M.S. in International Trade Policy from The University of the West Indies will:

• Gain high level of human resource capacity in trade negotiations and policy. 

• Assist in the specific areas of vulnerability unique to the region in particular and developing countries as a whole. 

• Gain practical skills in trade policy. 

• Learn basic theories relating to international trade, economics, politics, trade policy and law; regional and multilateral trade agreements and arrangements; trade in goods, services and agriculture; competition law and policy, intellectual property law and policy; technology law and policy; dispute settlement; investment and taxation; trade and labour; trade and the environment; trade and health standards; and trade statistics and analysis, etc., and training in negotiating skills and techniques. 

Careers

Our graduates started their careers in national trade and services departments and agencies, e.g. Ministries of International Trade or Business, Finance, Agriculture, Education, and Tourism, etc; the trade arm of regional and sub-regional agencies; private sector trade bodies and firms and NGOs relating to public policy and international relations.