The Chilean Export Promotion Agency is planning to hold business conferences in Costa Rica in the months of April and August 2013.
The FTA between Costa Rica and Chile will celebrate 10 years of being in operation, and has been a fundamental tool for the growth of trade between the two countries, which at the end of 2011 reached $237 million, with a balance in Chile's favor of $182 million.
An attempt is being made to boost exports to countries like Peru and Chile, with whom trade agreements are already in place.
Although industry representatives believe that the costs of exporting to the south are still high, the government is promoting access to those markets.
With this in mind, the Trade Promoter (Procomer) has opened an office in Chile, a country with which it signed an FTA in 2002.
The negotiations for the Association Agreement between Central America and the European Union are the stage for mutual accusations.
The persistent refusal by Costa Rica to integrate the Central American Parliament and the Central American Court of Justice is at the center of the obstruction allegations in the negotiations of the Regional Agreements with the European Union, which should be finished by May of this year.
Chilean diplomats and businessmen proposed the alliance to export jointly to the region where more than half of the world's population lives.
Chile and Costa Rica will sign an Integrated Association Agreement during the visit of President Michelle Bachelet to San Jose in October.
The Chilean Ambassador in San Jose, Gonzalo Mendoza, pointed out that Chile wants "to back the Costa Rican strategy of insertion in the dynamic Asia Pacific market."
According to the Chilean Embassy in Costa Rica, the agreement will be signed in October during Michelle Bachelete's visit to San José.
Negotiatiors for both delegations agreed on "taking the excellent bilateral relationship to the next level with the implementation of a Comprehensive Association Agreement Chile-Costa Rica (AIA)", during the bi national meeting in San José.