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

23 October 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…

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…

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

22 March 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…

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…

The TPP Must Be Evaluated in Light of the Region’s Productive and Technological Challenges, Experts Sustained at ECLAC

5 April 2016 | News

The region of Latin America and the Caribbean must evaluate the impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) not only in terms of access to new markets but also by weighing its contribution to countries’ diversification of production and exports, to the processes of regional integration and to the transition towards a digital economy, according to representatives gathered at ECLAC on Tuesday, April 5. The seminar entitled The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Impacts for Latin America and the Caribbean was organized in Santiago by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) …

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,…

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…

Latin American Countries Are among the Main Complainants and Respondents at the WTO

31 March 2015 | News

Latin American and Caribbean countries have been among the main users of the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) during its first 20 years of existence, according to a new study by ECLAC. Between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2014, the region’s countries initiated as complainants 117 dispute settlement cases before the WTO and were respondents in another 93 cases. These figures are equivalent to 24% and 19%, respectively, of all the cases brought during this period (488), according to the document The Participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in the WT…

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