AID cooperative agreement no. LAC-0619-A-00-4004-00 with The Chamber/New Orleans and the River Region to demonstrate ways of linking private businesses in the New Orleans Gateway Area with trade and investment opportunities in the Caribbean Basin

This 12-month pilot project will have four activities: (1) research -- investigation of the export potential and investment needs of Honduras and Belize, and identification of possible business linkages between the Gateway and these countries; (2) promotion -- dissemination of information about specific Honduran and Belizean opportunities to businesspersons in the Gateway and vice versa; (3) TA -- import/export, investment, and tourism TA in support of specific identified trade and investment opportunities; (4) replication, to identify and test replicable means of linking U.S. and Caribbean Basin businesses and businesspersons.