After posting double digit gains in 2010-2011, Latin America's export growth declined to just 1.5% in 2012 for a total value of slightly more than $1 trillion, according to figures just released by the Integration and Trade Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). These results...

This document inaugurates a series of annual reports that will periodically monitor the state of the region's integration in the global economy. These reports will build on an extensive body of quantitative information made available to the public through INTradeBID, a comprehensive information...

En el presente informe (número especial de la Nota Periódica sobre Integración y Comercio en las Américas) el interés se ha centrado en los desafíos específicos que enfrentan la Unión Europea y América Latina y el Caribe, así como en las oportunidades que surgen de tales desafíos....

The purpose of this document is to inform Bank staff and other interested parties about recent developments in integration and trade among the countries of the Western Hemisphere and between these and other countries and world regions.

Total Western Hemisphere exports to the world increased by 5 percent in 2003, according to preliminary estimates by the IDB's Integration, Trade and Hemispheric Issues Division. This marks a reversal of a two-year trend that saw exports from the hemisphere decline by more than 9 percent between...

Las estimaciones preliminares elaboradas por la División de Integración, Comercio y Asuntos Hemisféricos del BID indican que el crecimiento de las exportaciones latinoamericanas de 21 por ciento en 2006. Este es el cuarto año consecutivo con crecimiento, proyectándose las exportaciones...

In the last years, intra-regional and extra-regional bilateral trade agreements have proliferated in the developing world, particularly in Asia and the Americas, where countries often belong to more than two agreements. The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have formed nearly...

This IDB Working Paper is intended to provide an overview of how the agricultural sector is treated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) involving Latin American countries, whose exports tend to be more oriented towards agriculture. The paper compares the treatment of agriculture in RTAs between...

This note presents the preliminary estimates of 2011 trade flows produced by the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) Integration and Trade Sector. The estimates are based on partial year data for sixteen available Latin American countries and are calculated on the basis of national sources...

Datos preliminares del BID sobre comercio exterior en el 2004 indican que las exportaciones latinoamericanas alcanzarán la tasa de crecimiento más alta de las últimas dos décadas al superar los US$ 445.000 millones, lo que equivale a un aumento de 23 por ciento en el año.