Six Caribbean countries that had refused to join a regional trade bloc were likely to sign up in late June after receiving promises of aid to offset losses to their economies, officials said Thursday. The islands of St Kitts, St Vincent, St Lucia, Dominica, Grenada and Antigua had resisted coming on board, concerned that the single market's ending of import taxes in the free trade area would hurt local industry and that they would be flooded by products from the bigger countries in the region.
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