9 Ene 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Comunicado de prensa
(9 de enero, 2015) “Es imperativo trabajar en una aproximación estratégica de la región hacia China para conseguir mayores niveles de inversión extranjera directa china, especialmente dirigida a mejorar la infraestructura, promover la diversificación productiva y exportadora y estimular alianzas empresariales sino-latinoamericanas”, señaló Alicia Bárcena, Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), en Beijing.
La alta funcionaria de las Naciones Unidas fue una de las oradoras del primer foro ministerial entre China y la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamer…
8 Ene 2015, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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(8 de enero, 2015) Las reformas económicas en curso en China representan una oportunidad histórica para que la región dé un salto cualitativo y cuantitativo en su relación económica y comercial con la potencia asiática y así abordar sus desafíos de infraestructura, innovación y recursos humanos, elevar sus niveles de productividad y competitividad y diversificar sus exportaciones, según un nuevo informe de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).
El documento Primer Foro de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) y China: Explorando espacios de cooper…
1 Oct 2010, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:28
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El presente documento es una contribución del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y de la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) a la sexta Reunión Ministerial del Foro del Arco del Pacífico Latinoamericano, a realizarse en octubre de 2010 en Cusco (Perú). De este modo, se da seguimiento a la solicitud que los Ministros de Relaciones Exteriores y de Comercio del Arco plantearan a ambos organismos durante su quinta Reunión Ministerial, efectuada en Puerto Vallarta (México) en noviembre de 2009. En tal ocasión, se les encomendó constituir un comité bipartito para la imp…
1 Mayo 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Disponer de una buena base de datos del comercio exterior de los países constituye una herramienta fundamental para los tomadores de decisiones. La División de Comercio Internacional e Integración de la CEPAL, ahora presenta una base de datos de fácil manejo que entrega información del intercambio comercial de 33 países de América Latina y el Caribe, de 15 países miembros históricos de la Unión Europea, más otros países seleccionados principalmente miembros del Foro de Cooperación Económica Asia-Pacífico (APEC) denominado Sistema Interactivo Gráfico de Datos de Comercio Internacional (SIGCI).…
1 Mar 2001, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Desde el punto de vista de su contenido, el presente artículo es una continuación natural tanto del Boletín FAL No. 167 como del Boletín FAL No. 171. En efecto, dado que en el Boletín FAL No. 167 se avanzó conceptualmente en la definición del término facilitación del comercio y en explicar de manera general la forma en que este tema es abordado en algunos organismos internacionales, así como en el proceso para constituir el ALCA, en el presente artículo se amplía y profundiza la información referida a la facilitación del comercio en este último foro negociador, el cual agrupa al considerable n…
El Entendimiento Relativo a las Normas y Procedimientos por los que se rige la Solución de diferencias de la Organización Mundial del Comercio se ha convertido en el principal instrumento jurídico mediante el cual los países en desarrollo, incluidos los de América Latina y el Caribe, pueden defender sus derechos e intereses comerciales. Este instrumento es ya una referencia obligada para la solución de diferencias comerciales a nivel regional y bilateral, traspasándose varias de sus normas a instrumentos recientemente negociados, o bien permitiendo, mediante la elección de foro, resolver una c…
5 Nov 2003, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Discusses the objectives behind export promotional policies, their methods, and the benefits to be derived. Describes, analyses and assesses export promotional polices in the case of CARICOM Caribbean economies. Examines the physical and institutional context, and instruments for export promotional policies, and the analyses their implications and
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9 Abr 2013, 08:00 - 10:00
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Evento (Meetings and technical symposiums)
Organized by UNCTAD/Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), and the World Trade Organization (WTO).…
This document analyses the origins and consequences of debt accumulation in the Caribbean. The focus is placed on Caribbean Community (CARICOM) economies. The document also examines current strategies for the reduction of debt…
1 Mar 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Studies of Argentina, Colombia, Chile and Mexico conducted collaboratively by ECLAC and GTZ point to environmental impacts associated with small and medium enterprises (SMEs), particularly in the manufacturing sector. This impact is essentially local, though it can become significant at the aggregate level, i.e., SMEs are responsible for some of the environmental problems caused by industry as a whole. Though SMEs account for only a small fraction of such problems -at the national level, the effect is often marginal in terms of environmental degradation- the impact may be significant and fairl…
1 Feb 2005, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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The present level of intra-regional trade of Latin America and the Caribbean in relation to their total exports is still low when compared to the peak of 21.1% registered in 1997, despite its rebound in 2003 and continued recovery into 2004. While this trade holds a high potential for future growth, there are a series of problems to be addressed in order for regional integration to continue on the paths of recovery and deep integration. The countries in the region should keep working on the constraints that its regional integration process continues to suffer from the persistence of non-tariff…
31 Ene 2018, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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This study focuses on the identification of the challenges and capacity constraints faced by enterprises in the sub-region in exploiting trade opportunities provided by Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Partial Scope Agreements (PSAs). It concentrates on the goods sector and case studies for Belize, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago, and seeks to develop a strategic framework aimed at addressing these challenges and constraints, thereby creating a platform for economic diversification and export expansion. It explores the recent trade performance of the countries in question under selected trad…
The global economic crisis has put an end to a period of worldwide expansion and halted the integration of Latin America and developing Asia with the international economy. Current and expected economic weakness in the advanced economies has led us to look elsewhere for sources of growth. Emerging economies in Asia and Latin America have increased their contributions to world production, finance, and trade in the past decades. In doing so, the two regions have deepened their economic ties with significant implications for the recovery of their respective economies. In this paper we discuss the…
The liberalization of Maritime Transport is one important element to increase the export competitiveness of a country. In fact, studies remark that, for some countries, the effective rate of protection by the costs of transport is much higher than that of tariffs. One of the most relevant elements in the determination of the costs of maritime transport refers to the efficient management of ports. The global trend towards trade liberalization and integration and economic interdependence led Latin American countries to opt for programs of economic reforms that incorporated the participation of d…
Introduction The Netherlands Antilles is an autonomous entity within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and comprises a federation of five Caribbean islands: Bonaire and Curacao (the Leeward islands) which comprise 80 per cent of the population of 211,000 and Saba, St. Eustatius and the southern part of St. Maarten (the Windward islands). Like the other countries in the Kingdom, it enjoys full autonomy in internal matters as, for example, education, public health, justice and customs. It has a per capita income of about US$ 12,000. The Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands account for a…
Summary
1. The statistics offices in the region utilize state of the art technology for processing their trade data, and report producing statistics on a regular basis. The periods of publications are monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, annually, and semi-annually, but vary amongst countries.
2. The warrants presented by importers and exporters to the customs departments for the clearance of goods is the main source of trade data in each country. After checking and processing, a copy of the warrants is placed in batches and forwarded to the statistics office, usually on a monthly basis.
In some co…
1 Mar 2001, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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Summary Trade between Africa and South America is of relatively minor importance for each region. The main purpose of this report is to determine if a scarcity of maritime transport services could explain this comparative unimportance. More than half of all trade between the two regions is accounted for by just ten specific bilateral flows in petroleum, grain, iron ore, coal, and sugar. Almost all inter-regional trade moves by sea, mostly by non-liner charter shipping services. Trade between Africa and South America is subject to relatively low freight rates, mainly due to the type of produ…
1 Oct 2000, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:28
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Abstract This paper analyses the competitiveness and technological structure of manufactured exports by leading Latin American and Asian economies for 1980-97. It explains East Asian performance with reference to the strategies adopted for technological development, focusing on foreign direct investment strategies. It particularly draws on the experience of Singapore, the countgry that has used FDI to promote industrial growth and technological upgrading more effectively than any other developing country. The paper starts by analysing the nature of technological activity in developing countrie…
1 Mayo 2006, 00:00 - 14 Oct 2025, 15:32
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The paper analyses the main features of trade agreements covering services concluded between Latin American countries and developed country partners. The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is devoted a full section with a view to setting out key analytical parameters for the ensuing approach to individual agreements with the United States, the European Union and Japan. By means of a very detailed comparison across agreements, a typology is established for classifying specific elements with relation to whether they simply mirror GATS provisions (GATS-neutral ), go beyond GATS pr…
Introduction The study of trade and integration (LC/CAR/G.681) between the Netherlands Antilles and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was undertaken to assess the nature and extent of trade between the two groups of countries as well as the institutional framework for facilitating such trade. In addition, the study considered integration options for increasing trade, in particular Netherlands Antilles exports to CARICOM. Assessment of the export structures of the two groups revealed similarity in goods and services produced but a more diversified export structure in the case of CARICOM. Th…