ABSTRACT
When the first Lomé Convention was signed on February 28, 1975, between the 46 states of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) on the one hand and the nine member states of the European Economic Community (EEC) on the other, there was concluded alongside it, and intimately related to it, a Sugar Protocol granting named countries access to the EEC for specified quantities of sugar for an indefinite period at a guaranteed price. The chief concern of this chapter is with the operation of this Protocol in the interests of the sugar producing countries of the Caribbean. In the nature of things this largely concerns the Commonwealth Caribbean (and within this specifically Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Barbados, Belize and St KittsNevis), although it also necessarily considers at the margin the effects of the Protocol on Suriname and the French Antilles. Conversely, in its European focus it is the attitude of Britain which is all important and is considered at greatest length, with just the occasional foray into other European dimensions.
