United States Latin America and the Caribbean Trade Developments 2019

This report presents a description of trade flows between the U.S. and Latin American and the Caribbean. The region has been one of the fastest-growing regional trading partners for the United States, with Mexico becoming its number one trading partner in March 2019. The document also contains a summary of the main findings of the United States International Trade Commission on the potential economic effects of the USMCA on the U.S. economy, highlights of developments in the trade relationship between the United States and China, and measures that inhibit the free flow of trade. In addition, t…

Alternativas para o desenvolvimento brasileiro: Novos horizontes para a mudança estrutural com igualdade

Ao comemorar os 70 anos da CEPAL, o Escritório em Brasília, com o apoio da Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) e da Young Scholars Initiative do Institute for New Economic Thinking, convidou jovens pesquisadores brasileiros para analisar o futuro da economia do Brasil, a partir das propostas e estruturas das análises da CEPAL. Os artigos incluídos abordam desafíos e oportunidades para o desenvolvimento do país nos próximos anos a partir de temas diversos, tais como a vulnerabilidade externa, a fragilidade das finanças públicas e do Estado, a inovação e diversificação produtiva, a necessidade de pol…

China y América Latina y el Caribe buscan profundizar su cooperación económica y comercial, en medio de incertidumbre global

Con la presencia de altas autoridades del Gobierno de China, representantes de organismos internacionales y regionales, de la banca de desarrollo, del sector público y privado, expertos, académicos y diplomáticos, se realizó hoy en la sede de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) en Santiago, Chile, el Segundo Foro de Inversión y Cooperación de Alto Nivel China-América Latina. El encuentro, organizado conjuntamente por la CEPAL, CAF - Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina, y el Ministerio de Finanzas de la República Popular China, busca entregar una plataforma para disc…

Digital and sustainable trade facilitation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Regional Report 2019

The Latin American and Caribbean region faces considerable challenges in terms of reducing the non-tariff costs and the time associated with foreign trade operations. The Global Survey on Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation 2019, a joint initiative of the five United Nations regional commissions, seeks to gauge how far countries have advanced with regard to the baseline provided by the previous versions of the Survey in 2015 and 2017. This report summarizes the results of the Global Survey 2019 for the 18 participating countries from Latin America and the Caribbean, which account for 93…

Policy Brief: Policy actions to facilitate upgrading of the agricultural sector in Trinidad and Tobago

For many countries, the acceleration of integration into the global economy and multilateral trading system provides an opportunity to access a wider range of goods and services as well as export markets, increasing their economic incomes, and improving the welfare of the citizenry. In particular, preferential trade agreements tend to increase export market access opportunities for the agro-industrial products of developing countries. While increased market access offers many opportunities for enhancing the economic growth of exporting countries, developing countries are often unable to seize…

Strategies for increasing economic resilience in the Caribbean