As the 56th annual Global Business Forum and General Assembly of the World Trade Centers Association convenes in Philadelphia this week, trade representatives from small and developing economies are pressing for a reversal of recent US tariff policies that have disproportionately harmed export-reliant regions across the Caribbean and Africa. At the center of this advocacy is the World Trade Centre Georgetown (WTCG), which is leading a regional push to reinstate the full duty-free provisions of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA), the longstanding trade framework that governed CARICOM-US trade relations before the current US administration introduced new import tariffs.