Searching for home furnishings, accessories, clothing and gifts, more than 150 local and international buyers will participate in the New World Crafts Fair, to be held in Antigua on September 24 and 25.
From the Agexport statement:
AGEXPORT's Handmade Commission prepares for the 12th. Edition of the New World Crafts Fair (NWC), the most important marketing platform for handmade products from Guatemala in the region and one of the main in Latin America, which will take place on September 24 and 25, 2019 at the Hotel Casa Santo Domingo, Antigua Guatemala.
In Guatemala, SMEs are being invited to take part in the next Central American Manufexport fair, to be held in Antigua, in September 2018.
A call is being made to SMEs from the sectors of food and beverages, hygiene and personal care, cleaning for the home, plastic products, cosmetics, and other manufactured goods to participate in a business conference which will take place on the 26th and 27th of September 2018 in Antigua, Guatemala.
Mining, manufacturing and food companies project closing contracts with Central American companies worth at least $14 million this year.
"...Establishing contracts for commercial transactions worth between $13 and $14 million over the next 12 months, in the three Central American countries that they visited, is the goal of the Peruvian Trade Industry Mission," saidElmer Lava, from the Commission for the Promotion of Peru for Exports and Tourism (PromPeru).
The meeting in Guatemala will focus on various manufacturing segments, cosmetics, plastics, wood and food and beverages.
The 8th. edition of MANUFEXPORT Retail Supply will be held from on Septemberg 7th-8th 2016 in Santo Domingo del Cerro, Antigua Guatemala.
From a statement issued by Agexport:
The export manufacturing industry is a highly dynamic and innovative sector and every year implements new strategies and business models to potentiate its exports, which represent 30% of Guatemala's total exports and which generate about 200 thousand jobs. One of the goals set for this year, 2016, is to surpass by 6% the $3.585 million already exported, according to the Bank of Guatemala, from January to November 2015.
In the first nine months of the year $15.9 million worth of footwear was exported, which is 26% more than in 2013.
The sector's competitiveness in terms of labor costs, incentives to industry, preferential access to key markets and strategic location of the country, are the main factors attributed to the growth in exports of Nicaraguan footwear.
The Investment Promotion Agency of Nicaragua, told Elnuevodiario.com.ni that "...
In April and May, two Peruvian trade mission will visit Panama, Costa Rica and Guatemala in search of business opportunities.
The Exporters Association of Peru (ADEX) has organized two trade missions from companies from various sectors and foreign trade students from Peru.
Gestion.pe reports that "the first exploration mission from the imports and logistics sector will be held from 16th to 20th of April in Panama and aims at learning about the trade and development opportunities in this country which trades with the world more than $18 billion and through which passes 14,000 ships and more than 12 million containers a year. "
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