Com­ment­ing on T&T's trad­ing part­ners, she said the UK con­tin­ues to be T&T's sec­ond high­est source of for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment and T&T's fourth largest ex­port mar­ket ac­count­ing for $370 mil­lion in 2009. She added the Eco­nom­ic Part­ner­ship Agree­ment (EPA) agree­ment with Eu­rope has opened up op­por­tu­ni­ties to ac­cess Eu­ro­pean mar­kets."We are com­mit­ted to in­crease our lev­el of com­pet­i­tive­ness and open­ness to trade," she said. Clos­er to home, she point­ed to trade agree­ments with Latin coun­tries like Cu­ba, Cos­ta Ri­ca, Colom­bia, the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and Venezuela gives for­eign in­vestors ac­cess to the T&T mar­ket.