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  • Ecuador's Importance as a U.S. Trading Partner and the Quality of its Products

    UNITED STATES, 2013/07/20 While most Americans may view Ecuador as simply the gateway to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador's importance to the United States as a trading partner is really much additional significant. This significant message will be on display in May as the Ecuadorian Trade Office in Chicago launches a new communications campaign, "Keep Trade Going. " The campaign will launch in Chicago and again expand to other cities in the United States over the coming months. The goal of the campaign is to enable the business community and general public to know the facts about trade with Ecuador and why a lot of sought-next Ecuadorian products may become additional difficult to find next July of this year. The campaign website, to be launched any minute at this time, is www.keeptradegoing.com.

  • Ecuador turns into key trading partner to import products for EUA

    ECUADOR, 2013/07/20 UAE companies are presently actively exploring Ecuador as a key trading partner to import products such as fruits, wood and flowers, with approximately $3.5m in investment by presently expected from major UAE trading companies as a result of their recent trade mission in the Latin American country. The top four Ecuadorian products that are widely exported to the UAE are frozen shrimp accounting for 46.07%; banana at 11.97%; flowers, specifically roses at 6.53%, and fruit pulps and puree at 6.44%. During the successful business missions to Ecuador by UAE manufacturers in the second quarter of 2013, four UAE companies participated as the official delegation at the "Macrorrueda de Negocios Ecuador 2013" (the Second Business Matchmaking event in Ecuador 2013).

  • Brazilian regrets Paraguay did not follow the path of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia

    BOLIVIA, 2013/07/16 Marco Aurelio argues that “Mercosur is equal to minus Paraguay plus positive Venezuela” and analyzes recent Paraguayan politics basically affirming that former president Lugo ‘won the elections but at no time had control of power’. Brazilian international affairs advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia admits the incorporation of Venezuela to Mercosur was done without Paraguay’s approval and argues the breakdown of Fernando Lugo was because of his political incapacity to follow on the steps of other nations with strong popular support such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador
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