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.

Now the Department of Export Promotion of Chile (PROCHILE), has proposed giving more impetus to this trade, and for this purpose, poses the question "what new products, market segments and investment could come to do business at ground level and which Costa Rican products could have a place in the Chilean market?. "

Elfinancierocr.com reports that "we have taken stock of the impact caused by the two-way trade agreement and of the main challenges for the countries and their productive sectors in order to get more juice out of the agreement."

"Chile is not only wine, salmon and fruit, we also have a robust manufacturing sector", said the Chilean Ambassador to Costa Rica, Miguel Angel Gonzalez. In order to open up trade options, in April and in August in Costa Rica, Prochile will hold two business conferences: On 18 and 19 April it will bring in Chilean entrepreneurs (30 companies) for the event "Flavours of Chile" and in August other entrepreneurs from the manufacturing industry will promote the brand image "Chile manufacturer."

Source: elfinancierocr.com

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