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1) International Trade and Transport Profiles of Latin American Countries, by Jan Hoffmann, Gabriel Pérez, and Gordon Wilmsmeier, ECLAC, Serie 19 Manuales www.eclac.cl/transporte/perfil/bti.asp;2) Globalization - the Maritime Nexus, by Jan Hoffmann and Shashi Kumar, in Handbook of Maritime Econom...

La presente edición del Boletín FAL informa sobre un estudio y dos eventos recientes que han tenido el propósito de promover el desarrollo marítimo portuario sustentable en Centroamérica y el Caribe.

This edition of the FAL Bulletin analyses the requirements of and the advantages offered by the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) of the United States and the Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) programme implemented by the European Union.Supply chain security, especially for fo...

The content of this article is the natural continuation of both FAL Bulletin No. 167 and FAL Bulletin No. 171. FAL Bulletin No. 167 advanced conceptually in the definition of the term trade facilitation and a general explanation of how some international bodies and the FTAA process itself deal wi...

Towards the end of 2004, the members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) formally launched negotiations on trade facilitation on the basis of the modalities set out in Annex D of the July Package adopted in 2004. This mandate instructed members to clarify and improve three articles of the Gener...

En esta nota técnica se presentan algunas de las razones que explican el bajo crecimiento de la economía mexicana y las dificultades exhibidas en la generación de empleos, pese a la favorable evolución experimentada por sus exportaciones. Se plantea que los bajos encadenamientos productivos domés...

Los Centros de Comercio Exterior (CCE) constituyen un esquema desarrollado por las Naciones Unidas a través de la Conferencia de las Naciones 'Jnidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo (UNCTAD) y de su Programa de Eficiencia Comercial, como una alternativa para abrir el comercio internacional a nuevos e...

This paper examines the extent to which China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 and subsequent surge in global exports affected the composition of trade between the United States and Mexico through 2009. The authors found that China's entry had a significant impact on the tr...

United States Trade Developments, 2012-2013, provides an overview of the most relevant trade developments in the United States trade relations with Latin America and the Caribbean and the measures that inhibit the free flow of goods among countries in the Western Hemisphere. United States trade f...