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China and Latin America and the Caribbean Strengthen their Trade Ties: Exports Will Grow 23% in 2017

8 November 2017 | News

Regional exports to China will show the highest growth in 2017, at 23%, surpassing shipments to the rest of Asia, Europe, the United States and within the region itself, according to the report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, which ECLAC recently launched and which it presented on Wednesday, November 8 at a high-level event held in Beijing. A delegation from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) – headed by the Director of the Production, Productivity and Management Division and Officer-in-Charge of the organization’s International…

ECLAC Presents New Report on Foreign Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2017

25 October 2017 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release a new edition of its annual report on foreign trade in the region next Monday, October 30, at 11:00 a.m. (GMT -03:00), at its central headquarters in Santiago, Chile. The document International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2017 (previously known as Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy) will be launched at a press conference presided by the Executive Secretary of the United Nations regional organization, Alicia Bárcena. In this edition, the report analyzes the performance of i…

ECLAC Presents the Foreign Trade Prospects of Latin America and the Caribbean through 2020

16 November 2016 | Announcement

Economic uncertainty and the slow growth of global demand in the last few years continue to negatively affect the foreign trade performance of Latin America and the Caribbean. This dynamic as well as the economic and social impacts of globalization are analyzed in the report that ECLAC will release next week in Santiago, Chile. The United Nations regional commission will launch on Wednesday, November 23 its annual report Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2016, in which it analyzes in detail the behavior of the region’s exports and imports in recent months and offers estimate…

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Presents Opportunities and Risks for the Region’s Countries

3 December 2015 | News

The successful end to negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was announced last October 5. This agreement will create the world's biggest free trade zone and will inject more dynamism into the global exchange of goods and services. Once concluded, it is estimated that it could boost global income by $295 billion dollars by 2025 and that global exports will increase by $444 billion dollars in the same year. In its Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2015 report, ECLAC indicates that the 12 countries that make up the TPP (Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile,…

United Nations Report Highlights Implementation Gaps in Cutting Red Tape for International Trade

23 October 2015 | News

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), together with all four other United Nations regional commissions, today launched the first global report on the implementation of measures to simplify import, export and transit procedures, calling for more to be done to cut trade costs and promote growth. The inaugural Global Report of the Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation Survey provides data for 119 countries and serves as a useful basis for bench marking and monitoring trade facilitation performance. Within the Asia-Pacific region, the r…

ECLAC Will Present Annual Report On Trade Performance of Latin America and the Caribbean

16 October 2015 | Announcement

The complex scenario faced by the global economy today is affecting not only economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean, but also its foreign trade performance. The magnitude of this impact is analyzed in a new report by ECLAC that will be unveiled next week in Mexico City. The United Nations regional organization will release on Tuesday, October 20 its report Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy 2015. The regional trade crisis: assessment and outlook, which analyzes the performance of the region’s exports and imports in recent months and provides estimates for the rema…

New ECLAC Study Analyzes Outcomes of the Trade Agreements Signed by CARICOM

31 March 2015 | News

Economies of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) need to transform their production systems in order to generate an expansion in exports and to take advantage of the market access opportunities provided by the trade arrangements with Latin America and the European Union, according to a new report by the Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean’s (ECLAC). The publication An assessment of the performance of CARICOM extra-regional trade agreements: an initial scoping exercise undertakes an assessment of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs…

Report Analyzes U.S. Trade and Investment Ties with the Region

30 March 2015 | News

To mark the twentieth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the United States Trade Developments Report 2013-2014, prepared annually by the Washington Office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), focuses on trade and investment ties between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. At the same time, presents the highlights of the economic relationship between the U.S. and Brazil, its second largest trading partner in the region. NAFTA, the study says, has made significant strides in expanding trade and investment among the three countries and enha…

Measuring and Reducing Carbon Footprints Would Allow Companies to Improve Their Insertion in Global Trade

11 December 2014 | News

Latin American and Caribbean companies could improve their insertion in global trade if they measure their carbon footprints and took action to reduce them in their productive processes, ECLAC representatives said this Thursday, December 11, during a side event of the 20th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20), which is being held in Lima, Peru. At the meeting, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) presented the results of its project on carbon footprint and food exports in the region, in which eight countr…

Free Trade Zones Contribute to the Diversification of Uruguay's Exports

5 December 2014 | News

Economic activity in Uruguay's 12 authorized free trade zones in 2010 gave direct employment to 13,000 people and represented 1.7% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) that year, according to a new study by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which stresses that these areas have also contributed to diversifying Uruguay's exports of goods and services. The report A case of Productive and Commercial Transformation: Free Trade Zones in Uruguay analyzes the recent evolution of economic activity, foreign trade and employment among the companies lo…

ECLAC Will Present Its Vision on Climate Change Challenges in the Region at the COP20 in Lima

4 December 2014 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present two reports and participate in numerous side events during the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 20), which will be held in Lima, Peru, until December 12. In the Peruvian capital, the Commission will launch an update of its study The Economics of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, providing a broad overview of the main impacts that are expected as well as subregional and national figures. The Commission, along with Peru’s…

Central America Intraregional Trade Keeps Showing Positive Dynamic

2 December 2014 | News

Central American intra-regional trade keeps showing great dynamism, although it is growing at a slower pace than before the global crisis of 2008, according to a recent study published by ECLAC sub-regional headquarters in Mexico. The report Goods and Services Trade in Central America, 2014 describes the socioeconomic evolution of the Central American region, especially Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, emphasizing trade and competitiveness indicators. Competitiveness analysis tools are used to identify the markets, products and services with the gre…

OECD, ECLAC and CAF to launch 2014 Latin American Economic Outlook

16 October 2013 | News

The OECD will present the eighth edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook: Logistics and competitiveness for development on Friday 18 October at 5:00 p.m,. in the margins of the Ibero-American Summit in Panama City, Panama. This year's report focuses on how the region can enhance its logistics performance and makes policy recommendations on strengthening trade links, diversifying into higher value-added industries and optimising competitiveness. It also makes suggestions on how countries in the region can embrace the new opportunities arising from shifting production structures. An…

Carbon Footprint - Source of Competitive Opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean

2 July 2013 | News

The carbon footprint is not only a possible threat to the international trade of Latin America and the Caribbean. It can also be a source of competitive opportunities. This is according to the preliminary results of the carbon footprint and exports project that the ECLAC Division of International Trade and Integration has been carrying out since 2012 with the support of the United Nations Development Account. For business owners in countries that are directly or indirectly involved in the project (Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay), what is…

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