Costa Rica Applies to Join WTO's Government Procurement Agreement
Costa Rica submitted an application to start talks on joining the Government Procurement Agreement 2012, the World Trade Organization announced. Costa Rica's trade minister, Manuel Tovar, said that joining the agreement "would open new government procurement markets for our country"…
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and also "add legal certainly and support to the participation by Costa Rican suppliers in government procurement procedures abroad." The application is based on "open competition, transparency and non-discrimination," Costa Rica noted. Costa Rica would be the first Central American country to join the deal.