The UK commerce envoy to Central America, Jessica Morden MP, undertook her first official go to to Costa Rica from 11 to 13 June 2025. The go to aimed to strengthen the UK Costa Rica commerce relationship, reinforce UK business pursuits, and spotlight the UK’s world management on local weather resilience and sustainable finance.
Throughout her programme, the commerce envoy met with key authorities officers, enterprise leaders and representatives from British firms to discover new alternatives to advance commerce and funding. This included a gathering with Costa Rica’s Minister of International Commerce, Manuel Tovar, the place she reaffirmed the UK’s help for Costa Rica’s accession to the Complete and Progressive Settlement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The UK formally grew to become a member of CPTPP in December 2024.
The commerce envoy additionally engaged with British firms working in Costa Rica to realize perception into the funding panorama and establish alternatives for progress. A gathering with the British-Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce offered additional perspective on the Chamber’s function in supporting UK companies pursuits within the nation.
The commerce envoy visited UK corporations Smith & Nephew and AstraZeneca, to debate how the Division for Enterprise and Commerce may proceed to help their progress in Costa Rica. She concluded her go to with a cease at Nation Day Faculty, a part of the UK-headquartered Nord Anglia Schooling group, pertaining to how the UK may help the supply of British academic excellence in Costa Rica.
Talking on the King’s Birthday Get together reception in San José, the commerce envoy mentioned:
This go to presents me a helpful alternative to additional strengthen our intensive commerce and funding ties, and to interact with lots of you who’re so passionate concerning the alternatives to spice up bilateral prosperity.
The UK Authorities’s primary mission is evident: financial progress. Our new industrial and commerce technique displays this precedence – grounded in long-term stability, a renewed dedication to free and truthful commerce, and a pro-business method.
The UK’s commerce envoy programme is a community of parliamentarians integral to supporting the federal government’s progress mission by offering further worldwide commerce and funding help to ministers.
They play an important function in supporting the Division for Enterprise and Commerce’s progress priorities, particularly via serving to ship the economic and commerce methods and attracting overseas direct funding to each area within the UK.
