Latin American Member countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Integration Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Association Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela The
ALADI framework (
ALADI) is a preferential trade arrangement consisting of about 40 partial scope agreements involving two or more countries.
Solo 5.5% de las exportaciones se ubicaron en la region latinoamericana de la
ALADI (19 mil millones de dolares) y, dentro de este porcentaje, el 45% son exportaciones dirigidas al bloque del Mercosur (6.9 mil millones de dolares) y solo 1.4% se dirigio a la economia uruguaya equivalente a 271 millones de dolares.
* Representatives from the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Integracion (
ALADI, the Latin American association for integration) and the UN Economic Commission for Latin American Countries.
Barbosa, 63, played a key role in the formation of the Mercosur trade bloc in the late 1980s, and he served as Brazil's first ambassador to
ALADI, the Latin American Integration Association.
Its export markets are diversified, with 25.6% going to the EU, 24.7% to the US, and 21% to the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Integracion (
ALADI).
Durante estos ultimos anos, se ha asistido a una carrera hacia la reduccion de la proteccion aduanera, observandose una participacion activa en la ronda Uruguay del GATT y una multiplicacion de los acuerdos de libre comercio interamericanos en el marco de la
ALADI. La tarifa arancelaria media de America Latina, que se situaba en un 45% a mitad de los ochenta, ha disminuido al 13% en 1995.
