Chamber endorses MMEDS Act to drive investment, job creation and supply chain security. #NewsismyBusiness
Organization engages U.S. lawmakers and hosts “Puerto Rico Open for Business” reception. #NewsismyBusiness
The visit was part of the organization’s Federal Affairs Educational Series (FACES), which focuses on reshoring, health care, energy, infrastructure and tax policy. #NewsismyBusiness
The event served as a key platform for reflection, action, and collaboration among experts and public policymakers. #NewsismyBusiness
The partnership strengthens ties with the business sector. #NewsismyBusiness
The studies were commissioned and revealed to provide a glimpse into economic and demographic trends across different sectors to facilitate business planning and strategic development for 2024. #NewsismyBusiness
The event replaces the annual convention and seeks to stimulate business and economic innovation. #NewsismyBusiness
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As word of the decision taken by Standard and Poor’s to downgrade Puerto Rico’s credit rating to junk level, the island’s biggest trade groups spoke out. Following are their individual statements.
More than 20 agency heads took part in an economic forum hosted by the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Thursday to exchange ideas and proposals directed toward furthering the island’s socioeconomic development.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Federico González-Denton recently swore-in attorney Jorge Cañellas as the new president of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce, as well as its board members for 2013-2014, at an event that took place at the Conrad Condado Plaza Hotel.
For the fifth consecutive year, the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce College Chapter will host its “Business Camp” during the group’s upcoming annual convention. The event will benefit 50 university students who will have the opportunity to visit four companies from different sectors on the island, learn their stories and interact with other young entrepreneurs.
Family-owned industry Caribbean Produce has been recognized twice this month as distributor of the year and among Puerto Rico’s 100 outstanding companies, by the Marketing, Industry and Food Distribution Chamber (MIDA by its initials in Spanish), and the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (CofC), respectively.
Criticism to the bill proposing amendments to Puerto Rico’s sales and use tax code poured in Thursday from many of the island’s most prominent professional organizations, which essentially agreed that eliminating certain exemptions would have a “devastating” effect on businesses and consumers.
The U.S. International Trade Commission should conduct a study similar to what the U.S. Government Accountability Office released last week when implementing a free trade agreement “to confirm the impact of the treaty on the economy, companies and consumers of the countries that sign the treaty to supplement the lack of data referenced by the GAO study itself,” the head of the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce (CofC) said Monday.
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