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In terms of its contents, this article is a natural continuation of FAL Bulletin No. 167. In that edition of the Bulletin, conceptual progress was made in defining the notion of ?facilitation of trade? and in outlining how this issue is dealt with in some international organizations; here, inform...

On this issue of the Bulletin an attempt is made to illustrate how modern Trade Facilitation techniques, with an emphasis on EDI, affect different parts of the society such as business, commerce, transport, administration and government.

An ECLAC document to be published in the near future examines a subject that has become a frequent topic of discussion in recent years, particularly in the Southern Cone of Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay), where the greatest volume of land transport i...

The present issue completes a series of articles which began with FAL Bulletin No. 167 and continued with FAL Bulletin Nos. 171, 175, 178, 181, 184 and 187. A compendium of these studies has been published in Spanish as Document No. 19 of the ECLAC Comercio internacional series (December 2001) un...

This issue of the FAL Bulletin is based on a study prepared by ECLAC which works out a provisional approach for estimating the impact of increases in freight rates on exports from Latin America during the last few quarters. The total cost of exports from the region reflects the increases in three...

On 12 September 2006, on the occasion of the launching of the report Latin America and the Caribbean in the World Economy, 2005-2006, the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, José Luis Machinea, presented a new version of the software program Module for the Analysis of Growth of International Commerce ...

La División de Comercio Internacional e Integración de la CEPAL (DCII) lanzará a fines de septiembre del 2005 el libro titulado Information Technology for Development of Small and Medium-sized Exporters in Latin America and East Asia (Tecnología de la información para el desarrollo de pequeños y ...

Entre el 15 y el 16 de diciembre de 1998, se llevará a cabo, en Nueva Orleans, Estados Unidos, la Tercera Reunión Hemisférica de Ministros de Transporte, cuyo programa de trabajo ha sido incorporado al Plan de Acción de las Américas. La Cumbre de Presidentes de Santiago, celebrada en Santiago de...

Como se explicó en la edición No 236 del Boletín FAL, de abril de 2006, los procedimientos de origen en los acuerdos de integración económica (AIE) suscritos entre países de América Latina tienen que ver, por un lado, con la emisión de los certificados de origen y, por el otro, con la verificació...