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

16 October 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 July 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…

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

27 October 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 August 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 State of the Most Widely Consumed Fuel in Mexico: Natural Gas

26 September 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…

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

18 January 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 August 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…

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…

Experts and Authorities Will Analyze at ECLAC the Advantages of Trade Single Windows for Internationalizing SMEs

8 May 2019 | Announcement

International experts and authorities from the region’s countries will gather at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for the III CORPYME Training Workshop: Trade Single Windows for the Internationalization of SMEs. This meeting will take place on Monday, May 13, 2019 at the United Nations organization’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. It will be inaugurated at 9:00 a.m. by Raúl García-Buchaca, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary for Management and Program Analysis; Gabriela Orosco, Director General of Trade and Investment Agreements at the Mi…

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

7 December 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…

Deepening Regional Integration is an Imperative for Facing International Turbulence

25 June 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…

Fair Trade, an Ally for Fulfilling the 2030 Agenda

12 December 2017 | News

The main goal of the fair trade movement is to guarantee that small-scale farmers and artisanal producers have more direct access to the market for their products, in more just and equitable conditions. It seeks to foster responsible consumption through more sustainable commercialization channels that are based on solidarity, recognizing the work of producers and their organizations. In this way, fair trade aims to reduce inequalities through greater equity and equilibrium in trade relations within countries as well among countries in the global north and south. This movement, which fosters so…

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…

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…

Government Representatives and United Nations Experts Reviewed Advances and Challenges of Landlocked South American Countries

19 November 2013 | News

Government representatives from seven South American countries and United Nations experts met on 19 November in Asunción, Paraguay, to review the advances and challenges of the agreements adopted in 2003 in Almaty (Kazakhstan) in regard to landlocked countries worldwide. According to United Nations data, there are 31 landlocked developing countries, including two in Latin America (Bolivia and Paraguay). The Regional Meeting in Preparation for the Comprehensive 10-Year Review Conference on the Implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action was organized by the Government of Paragu…

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