State of the Central American Integration Process

A Central American Economic Integration Situation Report details legal and institutional frameworks, trade of goods and the Central American Customs Unification process.

Friday, February 24, 2012

The report by the Central American Economic Integration Secretariat among other things refers to:

LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS
-General Treaty of Central American Economic Integration.
-Tegucigalpa Protocol to the Charter of the OCAS (Tegucigalpa Protocol
-Protocol for the General Treaty of Central American Economic Integration (Guatemala Protocol)

CENTRAL AMERICAN TRADE IN GOODS WITH THE WORLD
-Trading of Central America and the world
-Major trading goods partners
-Central American Trade with Major economic blocs
-Best-sellers and buyers of goods with the world

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