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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…

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…

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 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 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…

ECLAC provides senior public officials with cutting-edge trade analysis tools

20 Nov 2017 | News

Thirty-two public officials, senior officers and decision makers from several Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries gathered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines this week, to gain a better understanding of the tools needed to provide deeper trade analysis that would support future Economic Union trade negotiations among members of the OECS. Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the workshop introduced participants to a suite of cutting-edge digital tools that will bolster their ability to analyse national trade compe…

Strategies to improve Caribbean trade performance examined at ECLAC meeting

14 Nov 2017 | News

The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters in Port of Spainrecentlybrought together decision makers from Belize, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago to examine the trade-related performance of Caribbean countries. he basis for discussion was the ECLAC study entitled “Monitoring trade agreements: Improving export performance and promoting industrialization in the goods-producing economies of the Caribbean”. The study highlighted that the exports of Belize, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago are concentrated towards few markets, most notably the United Stat…

Central America Should Have a Regional Competition Authority, New ECLAC Study Proposes

14 Jun 2017 | News

The coordination of Central American competition policy would contribute to improving market functioning in the subregion and would reinforce competition in each country, according to the study Overview and challenges of competition policy in Central America (Spanish only). The publication by the Subregional Headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Mexico analyzes how the requirements of the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union – which establishes that all countries must have an effective competition policy – have co…

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

16 Nov 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 Apr 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 Dec 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,…

ECLAC Study Analyzes Incentives to Attract Foreign Investment to Central America

22 Jun 2015 | News

Many countries have designed incentive policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and promote exports based on special exportation areas or free-trade zones. A new publication by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) analyzes these tools and offers proposals to replace them, taking into consideration that several of the current incentives should be dismantled by the end of 2015 because they violate World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. The study New-Generation Public Incentives for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Central America (in Spanish …

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

31 Mar 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…

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

31 Mar 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…

South Korea, an Interesting Experience in Green and Technological Development

22 Jan 2015 | News

In just half a century, the Republic of Korea has gone from being one of the poorest countries on the planet to becoming a global actor, with a solid industrial base and a prominent presence in new technologies. It serves an example that can inspire debate about development in Latin America and the Caribbean, participants said during the international seminar “Trade, Industrialization and Green Growth: Exploring Opportunities for Cooperation between the Republic of Korea and Latin America,” which was held on January 22, 2015, at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and…

ECLAC Holds Two Seminars on Latin America's Trade Relations with Asian Countries

20 Aug 2013 | News

During this decade, Latin America's economic and trade relations with Asian countries have grown considerably, and this is reflected in the figures and the rise in the number of trade agreements included between countries of the two regions. However, these links still feature asymmetries that remain a challenge, particularly for Latin American countries. In this context, this week the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) will hold two seminars at its headquarters in Santiago, Chile, both opened by the Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena. On Wednesday 21 August will t…

Latin America-Asia Pacific Observatory Is Now Available Online

16 May 2013 | News

Information on 37 economies (19 from Latin America and 18 from Asia Pacific), which includes macroeconomic and trade statistics, data on trade/investment agreements and ongoing negotiations, is featured on the website of the Latin America-Asia Pacific Observatory (://www.observatorioasiapacifico.org/), which was launched on 15 May 2013 at the headquarters of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) in Montevideo. The Observatory, which was set up in 2012, is a joint initiative of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), ALADI and CAF-Latin American Develo…

European Union and ECLAC Underline Importance of Strengthening Bi-regional Cooperation in Complex Global Context

7 Sep 2025 | News

The European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, and Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Mario Cimoli, underscored the importance of strengthening and deepening their ties of bi-regional cooperation in the complex global context caused by the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, during a bilateral meeting held today at the United Nations regional commission’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile. Josep Borrell and Mario Cimoli shared their views on topics of mutual interest, such as th…

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