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ECLAC’s New Annual Report Analyzes the Effects of U.S. Tariffs on Latin America and the Caribbean’s Foreign Trade

12 Nov 2025 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release next Wednesday, November 19, its annual report entitled International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2025: International trade in a new era of weaponized interdependence. In addition to examining the evolution of foreign trade in the region’s economies during the first half of this year and to presenting its full-year projections for the export and import of goods and services, ECLAC in this report will provide a special analysis of the effects that the United States’ new tariff policy has had o…

ECLAC Will Present New Projections on Latin America and the Caribbean’s Foreign Trade in 2024

16 Oct 2024 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release its annual report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2024: Reconfiguration of global trade and options for regional recovery next Wednesday, October 23. In this report, ECLAC examines the evolution of foreign trade in the region’s economies during the first half of this year and presents its projections for the full year’s exports and imports of goods and services. This edition of the document consists of three chapters: the first analyzes the recent context for trade and its prospects…

Exports Between MERCOSUR Countries Showed Resilience Amid a Fall in the Rest of the Bloc’s Sales Abroad

5 Jul 2024 | News

Exports of goods from the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) fell by 4.1% in 2023, driven by a 7.2% drop in international prices for the exported goods, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates in a new document. This occurred in the context of normalization of the international supply of goods after the COVID-19 pandemic and the start of the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and it was offset by a 3.2% rise in volume attributable to improved agricultural harvests in Brazil and Paraguay. A new edition of the Foreign Trade Bulletin of MERCO…

Authorities, Experts and Academics from Across the World Meet at ECLAC to Examine Industrial and Trade Policies Using Input-Output Analysis

2 Jul 2024 | News

More than 250 academics, scientists, researchers, innovators, educators and policymakers from across the world and from diverse fields will be gathering on July 2-5 in Santiago, Chile at the 30th International Input-Output Association (IIOA) Conference and 12th Edition of the International School of I-O Analysis. The event – convened by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the IIOA – is supported by Andrés Bello University, the Central Bank of Chile and the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The main theme of the conference is “Rethinking industrial and tra…

ECLAC Presents Annual Report on Latin America and the Caribbean’s Foreign Trade in 2023

27 Oct 2023 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release on Thursday, November 2 its flagship annual report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2023. Structural change and trends in global and regional trade: challenges and opportunities, which examines the behavior of foreign trade in the region’s economies in the current year, with the most recent figures available on the performance of countries’ exports and imports. This edition of the document consists of three chapters: the first addresses the global context and regional trade; the seco…

MERCOSUR’s Exports Recover from the Pandemic’s Effects, Rising 18.2% in 2022

23 Aug 2023 | News

Exports of goods from the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) increased by 18.2% in 2022 and surpassed their 2019 level by 43.9%, driven by the notable rise in commodity prices due to the war in Ukraine, coupled with a 3.2% increase in volume, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates in a new document released today. In a new edition of the Foreign Trade Bulletin of MERCOSUR (No. 6): “New channels for integration in the post-pandemic era”, ECLAC reports that MERCOSUR experienced 1.3% growth in economic activity (2.0% upon including Venezuela) in 2022, which w…

New Study by ECLAC Analyzes the Impacts of the War in Ukraine on Uruguay’s Economy

23 Dec 2022 | News

What impact has the war in Ukraine had on the Uruguayan economy? A new publication of the Studies and Perspectives Series of ECLAC’s Office in Montevideo analyzes these precise effects. The study entitled Economic Impacts of the War in Ukraine: A View from the Region and Uruguay (in Spanish only) verifies initially that this war represents a crisis of major proportions that overlaps with others that are also very significant, such as the financial crisis of 2008 and the pandemic crisis – which constitute what ECLAC has called a “cascade of crises.” As a result, the world and Latin America and …

New Study by ECLAC Analyzes the State of the Most Widely Consumed Fuel in Mexico: Natural Gas

26 Sep 2022 | News

The consumption of natural gas in Mexico has grown considerably in recent years to the point of becoming the energy source with the largest participation in primary energy consumption, mainly due to its greater use in electricity generation as a substitute for coal and crude oil and its by-products. According to a recent study published by the Subregional Headquarters in Mexico of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), natural gas has been the most widely consumed fuel in that country since 2014; its participation in the energy basket exceeds 48% and remains on th…

MERCOSUR’s Exports Grew in 2021, but Volume Remained Weak and Diversification was Limited

24 Jun 2022 | News

The increase in international commodity prices played a crucial role in the recovery of exports from the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) in 2021, which surpassed 2019 levels. However, even with historically elevated prices in the context of the war in Ukraine, the weak performance of the volumes exported by the bloc and their increasingly limited diversification must not be overlooked, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) indicates in a new document released today. In a new edition of the Foreign Trade Bulletin of MERCOSUR: “Overcoming the coronavirus disease (…

ECLAC Presents Report on the Region’s Foreign Trade in 2021, amid Post-Pandemic Recovery

1 Dec 2021 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Tuesday, December 7, its flagship annual report International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2021, in which it examines the foreign trade performance of the region’s economies during the current year, with the most recent figures available on the impact of COVID-19 and the post-pandemic recovery in the distinct countries. This edition of the publication consists of three chapters. The first analyzes the evolution of global and regional trade in the last year and their prospects for a post-p…

ECLAC Analyzes the Behavior of the Region’s Foreign Trade during the COVID-19 Pandemic

18 Jan 2021 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present next Friday, January 22 its annual flagship report entitled International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2020, which examines the behavior of the foreign trade of the region’s economies in the last year, with the most recent figures available on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in distinct countries. More specifically, this edition of the document is composed of three chapters, examining the evolution of global and regional trade after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease, analyzing the ev…

ECLAC Analyzes the Effects of the Coronavirus on International Trade and Logistics in Latin America and the Caribbean

4 Aug 2020 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will present on Thursday, August 6 its Special Report COVID-19 No. 6 on monitoring the economic and social effects of the coronavirus in the region, in which it will provide estimates regarding the pandemic’s impact on exports, imports, transportation and logistics in the region’s countries. The new document, entitled The effects of COVID-19 on international trade and logistics, will also include forecasts regarding the most affected export sectors, the level of intraregional trade, port activity, air traffic and land transpor…

ECLAC Will Present in Mexico its Annual Report on the Foreign Trade of Latin America and the Caribbean

23 Oct 2019 | Announcement

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will release a new edition of its annual report on the region’s foreign trade next Tuesday, October 29, at 11 a.m. (GMT -6), at the organization’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico City. The International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2019 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 international and regional trade in the last year and provides an outlook for t…

ECLAC supports training Uruguayan government officials on Computable General Equilibrium Models

17 Jun 2019 | News

With support from the Uruguay office of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the first of two workshops aimed at training government officials in the theory and practice of Computable General Equilibrium Models (CGEM) took place at the Spanish Cooperation Training Center in Montevideo from Thursday, June 6 to Tuesday, June 11. This tool allows for building equation systems that link merchandise markets, economic activities, production factors, institutions and foreign relations, in an integrated framework. They are based on Social Accounting Matrixes, and their …

Study Analyzes Mexico’s Degree of Economic Integration with the United States and Canada

13 Jun 2019 | News

The economies of North America have sustained strong trade and investment links over the 25 years of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In this space for economic cooperation, regional value chains have emerged that have allowed North American companies to handle strong international competition. That scenario provides the context for this new publication by ECLAC’s Subregional Headquarters in Mexico. The document Productive Links in North America (in Spanish only), published in May 2019, reviews the degree of economic integration between Mexico, the United States and Canada. It …

Trade Single Windows Would Help the Region’s SMEs to Expand Internationally

13 May 2019 | News

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent more than 99% of all companies in Latin America and the Caribbean, but their participation in regional exports scarcely reaches 6%. For this reason, instruments such as Trade Single Windows (TSWs) can be an important aid for internationalizing these companies, authorities and experts gathered in Santiago, Chile indicated today. At the III CORPYME Training Workshop: Trade Single Windows for the Internationalization of SMEs, organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with the support of the Republic of Kor…

Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is an Opportunity for Inclusive and Sustainable Investments: ECLAC

7 Dec 2018 | News

The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, highlighted today in Paris, France that the Chinese-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) could be a significant opportunity to promote inclusive and sustainable investments. This Friday, December 7, Bárcena made a presentation at the fourth Silk Road Forum, held in the French capital by the China Center for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD) and the China Development Research Foundation (CDRF), with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of C…

Advancing on Integration and Regional Cooperation is Essential to Managing and Taking Advantage of the Flow of Cross-Border Data

22 Nov 2018 | News

Advancing on integration and regional cooperation is essential to properly managing and taking advantage of the flow of cross-border data, considering that it not only involves different countries but also has an impact on areas such as trade, security and human rights, according to the specialists gathered at the inauguration of the Regional conference: Challenges in an interconnected world, cross-border data flows, data protection and cybersecurity, held at ECLAC’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile this Thursday, November 22. The event was organized by the Economic Commission for Latin America…

Deepening Regional Integration is an Imperative for Facing International Turbulence

25 Jun 2018 | News

In a context as turbulent as the current one, where there is increased questioning of globalization and heightened migratory and trade tensions, deepening regional integration is not an option but rather an imperative. Thus, the convergence between the Pacific Alliance and the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) is both necessary and urgent, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) emphasizes in the document The Convergence between the Pacific Alliance and MERCOSUR: Facing Together a Challenging Global Scenario (available only in Spanish and Portuguese). Acc…

ECLAC Report Analyzes United States’ Trade Policy and Its Hardening towards Latin America and the Caribbean

22 Mar 2018 | News

A recent annual report elaborated by the ECLAC Washington Office provides an overview of the most relevant developments in United States trade relations with Latin America and the Caribbean and of the measures that inhibit the free flow of goods among countries in the Western Hemisphere. United States- Latin America and the Caribbean Trade Developments 2016-2017 explains that trade features prominently in the new administration’s economic agenda. The President’s Trade Policy Agenda reinforces the focus on the defense of United States interests through the promotion of free and fair trade by i…

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