Sen­a­tor Vas­ant Bharath, Min­is­ter of Trade, In­dus­try and In­vest­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance and the Econ­o­my, met on Wednes­day with the new­ly ap­point­ed Ex­im Bank board of di­rec­tors at the min­istry's head of­fice, Nicholas Tow­ers, Port-of-Spain.

At the meet­ing, Bharath em­pha­sized the role of Ex­im Bank to fa­cil­i­tate fund­ing to lo­cal busi­ness­es in T&T for ex­port and im­port in an ef­fort to take ad­van­tage of glob­al trade op­por­tu­ni­ties.He en­cour­aged the board mem­bers to work close­ly with Ex­porTT to de­vel­op the ex­port mar­ket and en­cour­age lo­cal busi­ness­es to ex­port their prod­ucts.

New­ly ap­point­ed chair­man Ruthven Jag­gas­sar gave the com­mit­ment that Ex­im Bank will de­liv­er on its man­date and as­sured that ex­porters will ben­e­fit from rate struc­tures cur­rent­ly be­ing re­viewed.The oth­er board mem­bers are Greig Laugh­lin, Bi­jili Lal­la, Stephen Mc­Carthy, Sharon Ram­nar­ine, Nor­ris Her­bert and Anslem Richards.