The Trade Li­cence Unit (TLU) at the Min­istry of Trade and In­dus­try has an­nounced changes to its busi­ness op­er­a­tions, which in­volve con­tin­ued ob­ser­va­tion of its Lim­it­ed Vis­i­tor Pol­i­cy, to re­duce the risk of COVID-19 trans­mis­sion to staff and clients.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment, the TLU re­minds its clients and cus­tomers of the con­tin­u­a­tion of changes made to its busi­ness op­er­a­tions.

“The Lim­it­ed Vis­i­tor Pol­i­cy is in keep­ing with the na­tion­al guide­lines is­sued by the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go to safe­guard the health and safe­ty of the na­tion’s cit­i­zen­ry in re­spect of the glob­al COVID-19 pan­dem­ic,” the TLU ex­plains.

TLU cus­tomers and clients are re­mind­ed of the fol­low­ing…

1.     All ap­proved Per­mits and Li­cences will be trans­mit­ted to clients via elec­tron­ic mail. There will be no col­lec­tion of li­cences at the TLU Of­fice. Clients are asked to pro­vide more than one, and up to three (3) no­ti­fi­ca­tion email ad­dress­es, to which ap­proved doc­u­ments can be de­liv­ered. Clients are al­so en­cour­aged to check their “junk mail” box as well, in the event that the no­ti­fi­ca­tion was re­ceived there. Orig­i­nal copies of all doc­u­ments will be sent from the TLU di­rect­ly to the Of­fices of the Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er and the Comp­trol­ler, Cus­toms and Ex­cise Di­vi­sion. There­fore, there will be no need for clients to vis­it the TLU to col­lect Orig­i­nal copies. Queries can be made via email at tlu@gov.tt; or via tele­phone at 623-2931 ext. 3017; 701-1443, 701-1440 or 701 1415.

2.     All sup­port­ing doc­u­ments for Re­turn­ing Na­tion­als, as well as any re­quests for amend­ments, dis­pos­als or trans­fers, should be sent to the fol­low­ing email ad­dress, tlu@gov.tt; or dropped off at the TLU Of­fice util­is­ing the Drop Box Fa­cil­i­ty pro­vid­ed.

3.     All ap­pli­ca­tions for per­son­al use items un­der TT$20,000 should be emailed to tlu@gov.tt. Ex­cep­tions will be fa­cil­i­tat­ed on­ly for the el­der­ly or per­sons with lim­it­ed in­ter­net ac­cess.

4.     Clients who must vis­it the TLU, are re­quired to make an ap­point­ment through email at tlu@gov.tt; or via tele­phone at 623-2931 ext. 3017; 701-1443, 701-1440 or 701 1415.

While these mea­sures are in­tend­ed to en­able Busi­ness Con­ti­nu­ity in the cur­rent cir­cum­stances, they are ex­pect­ed to re­main in ef­fect be­yond the pan­dem­ic. The TLU stands ready to fa­cil­i­tate its man­date to pro­vide its full range of ser­vices to the pub­lic, in line with the strate­gies set out by the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go to min­i­mize the spread of COVID-19.

For clar­i­fi­ca­tion or fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on these changes, mem­bers of the pub­lic can con­tact the TLU via tele­phone at 623-2931 ext. 3017; 701-1443, 701-1440 or 701 1415.