EU trade with Latin America and the Caribbean :
Subtitle:
Overview and figures
Publication Name:
In-Depth Analysis
Year of Publication:
2017
Organization Name:
European Parliament
Publisher:
35 p.
City:
Brussels
Country of Publication:
Belgium
Full Date:
October 2017
ISBN or ISSN:
978-92-846-2007-4
Considered Countries:
Mexico
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Brazil
Argentina
Paraguay
Uruguay
Category:
Reports
Theme:
BILATERAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Subregion - European Union
BIREGIONAL RELATIONS UE - LAC
Agreements
Summits
Association Agreeements
Strategic Partnerships
BIREGIONAL DIALOGUES UE-LAC
Government
Business
Keyword(s):
CAN
ACN
Andean Community
CARIFORUM
CARICOM
Association Agreement
Foreign trade
Trade Blocs
Latin America
European Union
Foreign trade policy
Biregional Co-operation
Foreign trade partners
Free Trade Agreements
FTAA
CAFTA
Mercosur
Central America
Bilateral trade agreements
Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA
CELAC
Abstract:
This publication provides an overview of trade relations between the EU and Latin American and Caribbean countries and groupings. The EU has fully fledged agreements with two Latin American groupings (Cariforum and the Central America group), a multiparty trade agreement with three members of the Andean Community (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru), and bilateral agreements with Chile and Mexico. Since November 2017, a new agreement governing trade relations with Cuba has also been provisionally applied. In addition, the EU is currently modernising its agreements with Mexico (with which it has reached an 'agreement in principle') and Chile. The EU also has framework agreements with Mercosur and its individual members (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay). The agreement with the former will be replaced, once the ongoing negotiations on an EU-Mercosur association agreement have been completed. This publication provides recent data on trade relations between the EU and Latin American and Caribbean countries and groupings, compares the main agreements governing trade relations that are already in place, and analyses the rationale behind the ongoing negotiations on the EU-Mercosur, EU-Mexico and EU-Chile agreements. This is a revised and updated edition of a publication from October 2017 by Gisela Grieger and Roderick Harte, PE 608.793.
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